Word: die
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...became the Rochester. Remodeled in 1927, she was robbed of one of her funnels. She is now flagship of the special service squadron in the Caribbean, conveyor of U. S. Marines to Haiti and Nicaragua, but she is far out of date, destined soon to be scrapped. She will die with her head up. Last week the Navy Department announced that the Rochester's seamen, with the Rochester's equipment, had won the Battle Efficiency Pennant-for excellence in gunnery, engineering and communications- most coveted ship honor, during the last competitive year in the cruiser class...
...Underwood dynasty will not die, for among the seven purchasers who have been running the business since the brothers retired five years ago, are two more Underwoods, each a vice president: C. Thomas, son of Elmer; E. Roy, son of Bert. The other new owners are President Ben D. Jennings, Laurence E. Rubel, Artist-Illustrator Lejaren 'a Killer, M. D. Behrend, Leo G. Hessler...
...scurry to their cellars. Firemen were summoned to put out a blaze on an Erie R. R. freight loading platform, started by the burning grass. A chicken crate factory started burning down; two firefighters were overcome. A paper factory also caught fire. Match-thrower Moyer was expected to die...
...used to be that deaf children, like idiots, were considered useless to the community and allowed to die. For less than 300 years has there been any systematic effort to educate them. In the U. S. every state except Delaware, New Hampshire, Nevada and Wyoming, supports schools for the deaf. Those four states send their deaf children at public expense to schools in other states. Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Minnesota, North Carolina, North Dakota, Rhode Island, West Virginia and Vermont have compulsory school attendance laws for deaf children...
...brush with the Gros Ventre Indians, the other two in a battle with the Blackfeet, who were stirred into hostility by Hudson's Bay men in a trapping war and defeated only by the aid of the friendly Crees. "Dad," the last of the trio to die, confesses to a shooting with which Lige was charged and advises Lige to leave the plains while he may. But Lige stays the winter with the Crees. After a trip southward and a disillusionment with civilization, by way of two robberies and a spree, he goes back to the Marias again, where...