Word: grave
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Canton's symphony of stenches was added another last week-that of dead, decaying flesh, intensified by sweltering heat. Rescue workers, handkerchiefs over their nostrils, scrabbled in the ruins to drag out the injured, could give no account of the total casualties. "The city is like an open grave in which the living and dead are mixed inextricably," cabled one harried United Pressman. Lowest estimates put the number of dead at over 3,000, the injured...
...whole-hearted support given by the notorious Mayor of jersey city to this report . . . indicates from what quarters it evokes approbation. . . . This report is intended to divert the public attention from the grave dangers confronting democracy in Massachusetts...
Young, radical Corliss Lamont, son of Morgan Partner Thomas W. Lamont, received last week a special permit to pass behind Lenin's tomb in Red Square, Moscow to the Red heroes' burial place at the base of the Kremlin Wall. His mission was to investigate the grave of John Reed, U. S. Communist, journalist and poet. He found it intact. The first American to visit the grave since U. S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union William C. Bullitt placed a wreath on it in 1932, Corliss Lamont hoped to spike rumors that Reed's body had been...
...lost upon crew experts who hall the Harvard sweepers as sprint champions of the East is the significance of their consistently slow stroke over the short distances. Although the Elis flashed by Cornell to cast grave doubts on the Bollesmen's mythical title, sportsmen are picking the Chace-paced eight to come into its element in the long distance stretch at New London...
...becoming a second Sarajevo faded this week. Observers were agreed, however, that this last week had hammered home to Adolf Hitler two things: 1) President Benes' demonstration of force effectively reminded the Führer that Czechoslovakia was not impotent Austria; 2) British activity in Berlin and the grave view His Majesty's Government at home took of the situation -in striking contrast to what was done when Austria was being occupied-indi-cated that the British were determined to prevent Herr Hitler's use of armed force to settle the Czechoslovakian Question...