Word: bombs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...announced by A. M. Brown '34, president of the Club. The meet is open to amateur pilots who have not flown over 200 hours, and will take place Wednesday at the Boston Municipal Airport at 2 o'clock. There will be seven events including a novice race, bomb dropping, a triangular closed course race, precision landings, and an obstacle race. Brown and C. C. Rumsey '33 will compete in the more difficult events...
Cuba's persistent restlessness brought murder and sudden death last week. In Santa Clara City somebody who disliked President Gerardo Machado planted a bomb in the Hotel Santa Clara. When it exploded it killed one Manuel Gonzales. 32, a Spanish salesman for lottery tickets. A small bomb exploded in front of a Havana tax office. A policeman reached the scene just in time to have his left hand blown off by a second, bigger bomb. At Guanabacoa a earful of men poured slugs from sawed-off shotguns into Military Supervisor Captain Oscar Pau, who had been accused of atrocities...
...came a sharp explosion. Father Coughlin was shaken out of bed, he said. Neighbors awoke, called police. Father Coughlin called his good friend Mayor Frank Murphy. Streets were roped off, the house surrounded by guards. In the basement, police found remains of a crude, small black-powder bomb. The explosion had wrecked a steam-pipe, broken windows, spattered canned goods about. Otherwise, no damage. Only clue was a long white cord by which the bomb had perhaps been lowered into the cellar...
...high, sharp smell of the ammonia-valerian compound is bad enough. Far worse is the low, heavy, dirty odor of the zinc-valeric bomb, comparable only to the concentrated essence of a marching army's foot-smell...
...studies to be a nun. Giovanni recovers but gets caught trying to walk back to Italy. By the time he escapes prison camp, Angela has taken her vow of chastity. Giovanni pleads with her to break it. She has no sooner convinced him that this is impossible than a bomb drops on Giovanni. This time he is really done...