Word: handedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile, Sudetens who had fled to Germany and organized a Freikorps ("Free Corps") appeared in Mufti, wearing Freikorps armbands and supplied with light German weapons of every sort, including hand grenades and machine guns, to wage localized warfare upon Czechoslovak towns and customs houses all along the Sudeten frontier. At As, the birthplace of No. 1 Sudeten Nazi Konrad Henlein, Czech gendarmes who fortnight ago described themselves as "Sons of Death'' were driven out with heavy casualties. The town of As is the fingernail of a tiny finger of Czechoslovakia extending 18 miles into Germany, and Sudetens...
...knife, made an incision along the side to the breastbone, along the breastbone for eight inches, then straight through the third, fourth, fifth and sixth ribs. Pushing back the ribs he saw the chest cavity flooded with blood, drained it out with a suction machine like a little hand vacuum cleaner. Then he picked up Manning's heart and held it faintly fluttering in his hand. The pericardium (membrane enveloping the heart) was bruised and a large pool of blood was trapped in the heart, impeding its motion. Dr. Nicoll slit through the pericardium, and the blood oozed...
Chief problem in Centerville is poor dirt roads, which keep a traveling library away, make newspapers and mail late, compel farmers to do their own carrying to market. When Farmer Hand, trucking strawberries, gets stuck in the mud and his strawberries spoil, Centerville's people decide to build a concrete road. Crotchety old Farmer Banks (who is unpopular among Centerville's children because he chases swimmers from his creek) stalls progress by refusing to let his barn be moved out of the way, but finally gives in to avoid accidents at a sharp turn in the road near...
Died. Ervin J. Smith, 50, president of International Secret Service Association Inc., famed private detective who investigated the Black Tom explosion, the Leo Frank case, the death of Starr Faithfull; by his own hand (shooting); in Manhattan. Once a group of skeptical New Yorkers hired him to rig out some of his men in frock coats, send them to the lectures of Explorer Frederick Cook to heckle him with troublesome questions...
Died. Arthur William Savage, 83, inventor of the first repeating sporting rifle adaptable to smokeless powder ammunition (the Savage 303), founder of the Savage Arms Corp. of Utica, N. Y.; by his own hand (with a Smith & Wesson .44); in San Diego, Calif...