Word: locke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...awful silence, the Fascist majority instantly passed the Premier's motion. The more circumspect Aventines, realizing what was going to follow in a moment, bolted from the Chamber. Those who did not immediately flee, were assaulted by the Fascist deputies, as soon as they finished voting. Many a lock of hair was literally torn from Aventine heads. Many a Fascist boot literally propelled Aventines through the wide portals of the Chamber and down the stairs...
...length of the carrier wave by fractions of a centimetre (down to 9.984 m., up to 10.016 m.). In the instrument that receives the multiplex or "scrambled" messages, one circuit is made sensitive to the carrier wave, other circuits to specific modulations thereon; much as the slot of a lock receives a key's blade and the tumblers are touched by the key's teeth...
...strong teams from below Mason and Dixon's line during the Spring trip, the team defeated Williams, Columbia, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Princeton in short order. It ran up against unexpectedly stiff opposition from Yale on May 23 and the match ended at a 4 to 4 dead-lock when a downpour of rain interrupted the final doubles match with the score tied at one set apiece between Whitbeck and Ingraham, and Watson and Jones of the Blue...
Alarmed at the possible further developments of the insurrection, the college officials took advantage of the preoccupation of the Freshmen in their high carnival to lock all possible exits from the Oval with padlocks...
Shortly before the Henley distance was reached there occurred the accident which effectually squelched Pennsylvania's chances. The oar-lock of Reeve, rowing at seat six in the Quaker shell snapped off, resulting from what appeared to be a crab, and after a few strokes, he let his oar go overboard, attempting for the balance of the race to pass the beat to the oarsmen behind him, going forward and backward on his slide with each stroke...