Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...procession marched to the music of two mufiled brass bands, to the Delta, where the football game is usually played, and formed a circle, surrounded by a large crowd of students and others. The sextons dog the grave, while the Chaplain delivered the funeral oration, of which we are able to give a verbatim report...
...comes to all men, the desire to inspect brass knuckles, handcuffs, and rusty instruments of torture came to Edward of Wales last week. He visited the famed "Black Museum" at Scotland Yard. There officials are reported to have "thrilled" him by displaying gruesome exhibits which have figured in various well known trials for every crime from murder to "crippling a baby with a toothpick...
...Albert Samuel Inkpin, 41, secretary of the British Communist party ; William Charles Rust, 22, secretary of the Young Communists' League; Harry Pollit, 30 boiler maker and member of the executive board of the Communist Internationale; William Gallacher, 43, brass finisher; and Walter Hannington, 30, engineer. † John Ross Campbell, Editor of the Workers' Weekly; Arthur McManus, head of the colonial department of the Communist Party; John Thomas Murphy, head of its political bureau ; Robert Page Arnot, director of the Labor Research Department; E. W. Cant, Communist organizer; Thomas W. Wintringham, journalist; Thomas Bell, engineer...
...seventh game and the championship of the South by beating Georgia 27 to 0; and one by the sportsmanlike action of Northwestern in conceding to Michigan the "Big Ten" title for which the two had tied. And in Manhattan, under a sky of pewter, with a brass band playing for the march and countermarch of little figures in grey and little figures in blue, the Army beat the Navy 10 to 3 in the game that ended the season...
...plumber is also a chemist. He has been doing research work at the University in mining and metallurgy. He is 32-year-old Harry McClane. Last week he announced the discovery of an alloy. He claims for it that it is only slightly heavier than aluminum, much lighter than brass or iron, that it will withstand a pressure of more than 50 tons to the square inch, that it does not corrode, that earth acids do not affect it, that it takes a polish like silver, and that it can be manufactured to sell at about a dollar a pound...