Word: bombs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...combatants. The cleverest fighter strikes behind the lines. And while few men lack the physical courage to risk their own lives, none will be willing to take the chance of having his wife and children die in their home because an enemy he has never seen can drop a bomb on his city...
...Csongrad, Hungary, Jewish women gave a charity ball. Unbeknownst to them, several members of the "Awakening Hungarians," a Budapest organization with pronounced views on Hungarian independence, entered the hall. At the height of the festivities, an "Awakening Hungarian" rolled a bomb across the dance floor. One Jewish woman was killed, 50 were injured...
...jade have been made synthetically in a single working day at the geophysical laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, D. C. The substances known to be contained in the mineral desired are poured into a small platinum tube sealed with solid gold, which is placed in a "bomb" of the finest steel, along with a small electric furnace made of rubies. Heat up to 2,500° Fahrenheit, and pressure up to 200,000 Ibs. a square inch are applied gradually. Suddenly the pressure drops. When the container is opened, small quantities of rock or mineral are found...
Circuit Judge Fisher, of Chicago, threw a bomb among the numerous sturdy opponents of birth control in that city (who include Health Commissioner Herman N. Bundesen, M. D.), when he granted a mandamus petition to compel the city to issue a license for the proposed birth control clinic, theme of great agitation. Judge Fisher's decision contained these words: " I am loath to subscribe to the proposition that knowledge of birth preventive methods would materially lessen morality. If true, it would be sad to contemplate the weakness of our moral sense." The city will appeal. It contends that there...
...Lahore, India, when Police Superintendent Horton and his assistants were in the act of arresting Dhanna Singh, notorious leader of the Baba Akalis (Sikh zealots), a bomb which Singh was carrying exploded, blowing him and five policemen to pieces. Superintendent Horton escaped with injuries...