Word: breech
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Therefore, bonfires! Rip and burn the British cloth!* Scream that no Hindu needs more clothes than a breech clout...
ANSWER: A rifle. (An early type of breech-loading gun adopted by the British Army...
...square of water, as blue as a banner, a liquid panel like a window into star-space, it dreams, moveless, in the white tile floor. Drawn up against walls patterned less purely with tiles of ochre and green and ruby, naked attendants in breech clouts wait to knead and oil the bathers in the hot rooms, steam rooms, medicated rooms, therapeutic rooms beyond...
...Wilson writes in the "New York Times," "For prolongation such a career has few, if any, parallels in the world, and none, I think, in the United States. President Eliot has witnessed the development of railways, of steamships, of ironclad, of submarines, of airplanes, of breech-loading guns, of the telegraph, of the telephone, of two-cent postage, of radio, of automobiles, of newspapers, of X-ray, of elevators, of skyscrapers and, last but not least, of golf. And at the end of it all I found him, a day or two ago, an enthusiastic and even exuberant optimist. From...
From the Ruelle Arsenal to the Gavres testing ground, near St. Nazaire, was shipped a monster gun with a range of over 60 miles, throwing a projectile half a ton in weight, measuring 68 feet from breech to mouth. It was built in 1918 and was intended as an answer to Germany's "Big Berthas...