Word: breach
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seen at the cellhouse window trying to shoot the priest just before the explosion shattered all remaining windows in the neighborhood, blew men's hats off and buried the cellhouse in a heavy pall of smoke. A company of militia charged in, expecting to find a great breach in the convicts' fortress. But the masonry had held. The militia had to retreat and wait for a 75-millimeter field piece, an armored tank. When these weapons arrived, the cellhouse was stormed again. But this time there came no answering fire. Inside, five dead bodies on the blood-sopped...
However pleasing to the Pope was news of this celebration, last week he accomplished something that must have been even more gratifying to him. Seizing the most propitious moment possible, he completely healed the breach between Czechoslovakia and the Catholic Church...
Last week at Prague the Papal Nuncio gave to President Thomas Garrigue Masaryk the Grand Cross of the Order of the Sacred Tomb. Knowing this cross had hitherto been given only to Catholic sovereigns, the Czechs realized the Pope wished the breach completely healed. Especially joyful were they because of the fact that the Pope made this reconciliation in the midst of the celebration of the 1000th anniversary of St. Wenceslas, patron of Czechoslovakia and famed in Bohemian legends. While the festival over "Good King Wenceslas" has been in progress since May, last week was a most appropriate time...
...York, N. Y., Sept. 30--Representatives of Dr. Huey, the Harvard CRIMSON's high-priced Chinese prophet, were served suit today by the Martini Company for breach of contract. The famous vermouth manufacturers charge that Dr. Huey had agreed to endorse their cocktail ingredient, but had broken his contract to endorse Angostura bitters, Sunkist oranges, Gordon water, and two tea-spoonfuls of sugar...
...instruction of the University boat. It was a critical time and his prompt acceptance of this new responsibility saved an otherwise difficult and embarrassing situation. He had been very successful as a class crew coach and nothing but gratitude was felt by Harvard men when he stepped into a breach which the shortness of the time before the Yale race made impossible to fill in any other...