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Word: breechblock (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...penetrating soprano voice of Nannette Guilford, delivered the National Anthem. Margaret Anglin, tragedienne, gave a dramatic reading. Frederick A. Wallis, Commissioner of Correction, made a speech on "spiritual tendencies." A battery of "seventy-fives" roared a salute of thirteen guns. One of the gunners caught his hand in a breechblock. A physician had to be called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Laboratory | 7/28/1924 | See Source »

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