Word: deadness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week in Seattle, Mr. Burgunder, who had heard of the disappearance, was told that two men had been found shot dead in the Arizona desert, their feet bound with their own belts. "I hope," said he, "that one of them is my son." Then he was told that the bodies were those of the salesmen. Said Father Burgunder, "My God! I was afraid of that...
...British Embassy & Consulate. Another fell on the tennis court, killed 20 Chinese. The Canadian-French mission was demolished, the mangled body of a Chinese woman blown 200 yards through the window of Harvardman White's room. A bomb struck the Chungking power station. Chungking's radio went dead, the city's lights went out. The home of the British Vice Consul was struck three times, and fires surrounded the German Embassy & Consulate where, all night, the Consul General and his wife waited with cans of water to fight the flames. As morning came they watched helplessly while...
Representing the Bat'a family in the U. S. is 24-year-old Thomas Bat'a Jr. At his father's funeral, all Bat'a employes vowed "in the presence of our dead chief to uphold his ideals: service to customers through cheap shoe production and service to fellow workers through high wages." Thomas Jr., then aged 18, laid on the bier a bunch of white roses inscribed: "I promise. Tommy...
...dead water on the Princeton course makes the stroking for the race far more difficult than under ordinary circumstances...
Yale is definitely the boat to beat, and on the dead water of Princeton's lake, the Crimson will have a hard pull but indications are in its favor, while Princeton does not present much of a threat...