Word: riots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more intimate aspects of the life of the day, and has succeeded to a certain extent. If the reader himself has a vivid imagination, he may put Mr. Sherwin's pictures in his mind's eye and build up out of them a fine scene of rum and riot, women and song...
...Such unaccustomed calm had descended upon Mexico City last week that 7,000 students of the University of Mexico were able to attract attention by a riot, in protest against monthly examinations, in which only two bystanders were shot...
...great step would be taken in the interest of humanity but great injustice would be done to the fish of the sea." The Shields-Wayman controversy which everybody discussed at the Buffalo convention had reached its high point the week prior in a student egg-and-rock riot at Des Moines University (TIME, May 20). Dr. Shields, as President of the Trustees, demanded from University President Wayman the expulsion of six members of the faculty. To Fundamentalist Shields these members looked like Modernists. But President Wayman would make no expulsions. Followed the Shields expulsion of the whole faculty, the riot...
...annual inter-varsity meet in each sport. It is dangerous because it may not be true. And if Harvard were accused of something that was not true, and accused by a university they refer to as "one of our better provinces," the resultant reaction might be a race riot between Harvard students and the hinterland. In all events, Harvard, would be fortifying her athletic record, which of late has been none too rosy...
...promoters insisted was "the world's welterweight championship." They had reached the eighth round when two men, not pugilists, started a fight of their own in the balcony. One drew a revolver. Nearby spectators scrambled away. In a moment there was general pandemonium. One whisper said: "Race riot." Another said animals quartered nearby for a circus had escaped. Another, seeing smoke from a photographer's flashlight, said: "Fire." The 10,000 spectators sought exits, not calmly. Many were trampled. One man, who fell or was pushed over the balcony ledge to the floor below, later died. Sportswriters...