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Word: busload (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some 300 fellow gravediggers stopped digging, struck for higher wages (TIME, Aug. 12). If Foreman Zasadzdniski had dug just one more grave, for himself, he would have been just in time. Last week he was shot dead in the graveyard as he lead strikers against a busload of strikebreakers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Cemetery Strike | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

Last week one of these living statues did move, an event sufficiently startling to be cabled to the U. S. Before the astonished eyes of a busload of Baedekered tourists, a strange expression crept over the face of one of the horses. His knees slowly sagged. He collapsed. With a dreadful clatter of ironmongery, the sentry lost his sabre and plumed helmet, and scratched his gleaming breastplate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Statuary | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

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