Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard Freshmen were arrested by State Police and later released for sending a fake bomb to Governor Curley. The two taken into custody were Coorge M. Davis '39, Weld 28, who lives in Buffalo, New York, and Leonard Farmer, Weld 37, who lives in Amherst, Farmer was found to be the culprit, but no action was taken after he signed a statement admitting guilt in the matter. The fake bomb was sent Wednesday night at 7:30 o'clock from Harvard square. Davis' name was signed to the package...
...over in less time than it takes to say Col Charles R. Apted, '06. . . . The report, current in New York, that the Germans have mined the entire line of French border fortifications, amuses us for some queer reason. It seems so silly, the French sitting in their great concrete bomb-shelters waiting for the war while the Germans quietly crawl under the forts and leave tons upon tons of T.N.T., after which they return to a lusty meal of frankfurts and sauerkraut, the enfants de la patrie firmly ensconced in the palm of their hand. The best-laid schemes...
...that is leaving for the comparative comfort and quiet of the Russian front. The nurse and Lieutenant Kroysing fall in love, and when she promises to marry him he forswears his vengeance on his brother's murderers. They have one night together before a French airman's bomb blots out Kroysing. Bertin, nearly all his friends dead, sets out for the Eastern Front. An epilog shows Bertin in 1919 going to call on the Kroysing parents, to tell them "how their sons had died, and in how pitiful and futile a fashion; they must be made to understand...
...Harry Goul-stone, superintendent of a local colliery, doused his in a bucket of water. Sixth, apparently intended for Gorman, onetime umpire of the Anthracite Board of Conciliation, was intercepted at Hazelton before it reached another James Gorman. That evening fire, supposed to have been started by an incendiary bomb, gutted the first floor of St. Mary's Rectory of Wilkes-Barre...
...second largest insurance company in Europe ended its existence last week with an announced loss of nearly $80,000,000. Viennese, nervously watching from the sidelines the Ethiopian crisis and the German crisis, suddenly realized that another bomb for the peace of Europe was ticking away at their very feet...