Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nevada cave. The fire was surrounded by bones of a giant ground sloth which apparently the fire-builder had dis patched and eaten. Also in the cave were discovered 900 man-things, including scores of long fighting darts, feathers bound with sinew (probably a religious piece), a white stone knife, gypsum pendants...
...trust, we betray no confidence, when we point out that according to Professors Dana G. Munro's and Raymond Sontag's "Middle Ages" university students in that period were required to sign a pledge that in case they failed a course they would not "use a dagger or knife on their examiner...
Before the knife strikes, the CRIMSON wishes to extend to her its deepest sympathy in her coming bereavement from Mr. Heyward Broun, who happens to be her husband...
...impromptu prayer meetings in the railroad stations. As they traveled to their homes they carried with them two vigorous inspirations-on Prohibition, on Evangelism. Dr. Arthur James Barton of Atlanta had told them: "There is no neutral ground in this [ Prohibition] war. It is a 'war to the knife and knife to the hilt' between the forces of sobriety and orderly government on the one hand and the forces of liquor and lawlessness on the other." Dr. Leonard Gaston Broughton (a doctor of medicine as well as of divinity), also of Atlanta, had urged them: to support that...
...Harlem, N. Y., Thomas Allen, 45, was eating in a coffee pot.* The waiter took his catsup away. Eater Allen went for the waiter with a pocket knife. John Christor, proprietor, shot angry Allen dead...