Word: bombs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...real difficulty in grasping such articles as the following, which might appear at any time: "Professor ----, whose activities in urging the members of his courses, ---- 12 and ---- 45, so much sought after by the students, to enlist in the ---- ---- ---- ----, was approaching his commodious rooms in ---- 15 ---- afternoon when a bomb was ---- nearby. It is thought that the cause was probably due to Professor ----'s well-known anti---- sympathies." Or this is not at all unlikely: "An emergency meeting of the ---- ---- for ---- in 60 Mount ---- ---- was raided last evening. ---- ---- was speaking when a missile in the form of a rotten ---- broke...
...communication-trench, things seemed pretty quiet. Only a shot and an explosion at long intervals could be heard. We had travelled along the communication trench about half an hour, and were about to enter our shelters in the second line trenches when not far away came two fairly loud bomb explosions in quick succession. Then the earth seemed all of a sudden to reel. There was a commotion like the bursting of a volcano. Two hundred yards off, above the trees, a column of huge rocks, lumps of earth, tree-trunks and probably numerous human limbs, rose slowly and majestically...
...rough?' It seemed that the Germans had exploded a mine under one of our trenches, then opened a violent fusillade to capture what remained of it. Being second-line troops just arrived from resting up, we were not required to fight. We consequently were huddled together in a bomb-proof shelter, packed all day like sardines, but quite satisfied to remain where we were, while above our heads shot and shell seemed to pass for several hours with unexampled violence. That night also was 'stormy,' but since then, that is for the last five days, there has been little else...
...cases in which no actual wounds were produced by missiles, a large number were due to falls, chiefly from horses or into trenches, and to men being thrown down by a mine or large shell or bomb explosion near by. Also there were a few simple surgical conditions, as appendicitis and hernia, demanding surgical treatment. Many of the cases presented more than one wound, there being 670 instances of medical or surgical conditions in 383 cases...
...time or another under our observation and care. Of the 383 cases on which we have full records 318 received actual wounds by missiles--as follows: Rifle ball, 128 Shrapnel ball, 31 Shell fragment, 133 Shell fragment and rifle ball, 5 Shell fragment and shrapnel, 1 Doubtful, 5 Bomb fragments, 9 Hand-grenade, 3 Barbed wire, 1 Mine explosion, 1 Revolver ball, 1 Total...