Word: fields
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Four thousand dead Moslems could cover a U. S. football field with corpses three deep. A field outside the walls of a city in China's most inland province was so covered one day last August. News, apparently authentic, came last week to modernized Hankow from missionaries...
...governor of Kansu declared an amnesty. A long and dusty caravan of Mohammedans flocked back to their homes in Tao-chow-ting. At the city gates fur-hatted sentries with long Russian rifles turned all the men from 15 to 50 aside, ordered them to go to a distant field where they would be given food for their families. At the field hidden machine guns leaped, sparked and rattled. Three thousand men milled like sheep, were shot down in their tracks. Terrified Moslem women, hearing the gunfire, rushed from the city gates, hysterically committed suicide by the bleeding bodies...
...second son of Viscount Amberly, Philosopher Russell is famed as mathematician, radical, pacifist. One of "twelve men" who understood Einstein's Relativity Theory, he wrote The A B C of Relativity (1925). Last week he said he did not understand the "last five pages" of the Einstein "Coherent Field Theory," latest Einstein hypothesis, printed on six pages (TIME...
...Syracuse at about 8:30 in the evening, Warren Stevens ran three times past rows of floodlights that gave the field a blueish tinge to make touchdowns against Hobart. Used successfully in the west for some time, the floodlights proved that many potential gloaters who like to play golf Saturday afternoons will go to night football games. Syracuse 77, Hobart...
Died. Goliath, "only sea elephant in captivity," weight 3½ tons; at Chicago. Owner: Ringling Bros.-Barnum & Bailey Combined Circus. Goliath will be mounted for the Field Museum...