Word: holocaust
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nancy and "Chinese" O'Neill nearly meet their doom. At the last moment the adventurous Celt obtains a Colt, takes a pot shot at the munition-laden ships of Chang Kai Chang?"Master of the China Sea." He does not miss. He embraces the Hon. Nancy during a thunderous holocaust which signals the utter destruction of all their enemies...
...themselves into policemen to arrest Cincinnati's evildoers thus detected. Oldtime politicians who deplore the lack of politics in Cincinnati's form of government charged that the new system would reduce the efficiency of the fire department, predicted that Cincinnati might be swept away in an avenging holocaust...
...marks on charts, hoisted shining flags and sent curious wireless messages. But always the heaving ships cut new furrows, new foamy patterns. This was the mathematics of conflict, the grim, immediate study of warfare by men trained to stand on vibrating decks, coolly directing sea-born Waterloos amid a holocaust of explosions...
Alarums and an excursion of hook-and-ladder details lifted from their desks several hundred inmates of the Harvard Inns of Court early yesterday evening when a holocaust was reported in the new Langdell Hall addition. The firemen, upon forcing an entrance to the rooms under construction, discovered pots of fire suspended from the ceiling under a newly applied surface of plaster...
Chemists who analyzed chunks of the fallen building pronounced the cement not only badly mixed but adulterated. Quickly scotched was a scandalous rumor that "faulty American cement mixers" were responsible for the holocaust...