Word: dozen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Evidently of much sterner stuff than its tipsy neighbor on Oxford Street, Memorial Hall early yesterday morning remained unshaken in the face of concerted bombing by several Freshmen. Several months of plotting, a dozen copies of the New Yorker, and quantities of glue, canvas, and guncotton went into the production of a bomb eighteen inches long and five inches in diameter...
...candidates who wished to circulate campaign literature were compelled by a new law to do so through the Government, and peasants appeared puzzled to be handed by one local official in their village half a dozen different appeals. By this new system, as an eminent Japanese remarked, "Our elections have been purged of much bribery and corruption and of all political importance." This overstatement did not take account of the fact that Japan's dominant militarists are by & large against the Rich, whom they consider chicken-hearted profiteers, and for the Poor, in whom they fancy reside sterling Japanese...
...such domestic difficulties as Jack's disobeying his father, Bobby's cutting his wrist, Bonnie's almost getting smashed in an automobile wreck. During the picture's two-day action the family's love and unity seem on the verge of extinction in a dozen petty antagonisms which finally vanish when a real crisis arises...
...Adolph Seefeld, was sentenced by Schwerin's methodical court to be placed in "preventive detention" indefinitely, to serve 15 years in jail, to be castrated and to be beheaded, this last sentence to be carried out first. Aged 65, Schwerin's sinful Seefeld had killed a dozen young boys in the course of his orgies...
Late in 1932 a rumor burgeoned from the jungle. A U. S. engineer named Charles Hasler reported at Para, Brazil that he had heard of a captive white man believed to be Redfern. By mid-1933 the air was thick with rumors from a dozen sources. A German-U. S. engineer named Tom Roch appeared out of the wilderness to announce he had talked to Redfern. Regardless of source, the stories were all remarkably alike in detail...