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Word: bombed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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There was something strange about Student Zamorski. Surgeons at the hospital dug out of his body not lead but tin. Finally he confessed that the wound was caused by the premature explosion of a home-made bomb in his own pocket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Vodka Pogrom | 12/12/1932 | See Source »

...Lwow's Commercial Academy savage young Gentiles formed a double line with clubs in their hands. All Jewish students, even the girls, were forced to run the gantlet, to stagger away with bruised bodies. Jewish passengers were dragged off street cars and clubbed. Somebody threw a bomb into Gmilus Chassodim Synagogue, blew out all the windows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Vodka Pogrom | 12/12/1932 | See Source »

...merely point out to the wrathful policy holder the joker in his policy which also rules out payment in case of "acts of God." In Shanghai last week officials of three British insurance companies were far from nonchalant. They had received letters (wrapped around bullets) which threatened to bomb their offices and were signed by "The Prepared-to-Die Group of Shanghai Calamity Sufferers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Jokers but no Joke | 12/12/1932 | See Source »

...similar talk to U. S. sound newsreel cameras. Visibly nervous, Speaker Trotsky was then escorted by police to Copenhagen's Sports Palace where he spoke to 2,500 Danes in German, darting glances about the hall, twitching his hands and seemingly afraid that someone might throw a bomb at any moment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DENMARK: Aage v. Trotsky | 12/5/1932 | See Source »

...raised the question concerning the validity of the principle of excluding pacifists. That such a man as Einstein will be a menace to the American government is obviously absurd. This case should convince the public that those laws which condemn pacifists and place them in a class with potential bomb throwers and criminals are outdated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE EINSTEIN MENACE | 12/2/1932 | See Source »

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