Word: roped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hired assassins do the actual campaigning?tong gunmen who have originated many of the devices in favor with detective story writers. Their knives flicker in bad doorways. Their shapes are seen outlined against a gibbous moon, while they scurry over city roofs at night, or swing down a silk rope-ladder to their victim's window. They are carried up hotel elevators in packing cases; they train cobras to crawl through the speaking-tubes of limousines and bite their enemies on the lip; but the type of crime which entertains them most is the far simpler business of entering some...
...light blue ether above Fort Tilden, Rockaway Point anti-air defense base of Manhattan, soared, twisted, wobbled a deep blue cone of canvas, 15 ft. long, tapering in diameter from 5 ft. to 4 ft. Ahead, linked to the sky-target by a few scant hundred feet of rope, flew Air Lieut. Archie Smith in a Martin Bomber. From below anti-aircraft gunners launched torrents of gun fire, exploded thousands of pounds of powder into billions of cubic feet of gas. Sweated, toiled, emitted words peculiar to gunners...
...Department of Commerce. "To avoid duplication of labor," said he. Heretofore the Bureau and the Department has each 1) maintained a service in domestic and foreign distribution of mining products, 2) collected statistics on mineral production, 3) collected statistics on production of explosives, 4) tested the strength of wire rope, 5) conducted research into the uses of mineral raw materials in manufacture, 6) carried on research into petroleum products, 7) conducted research into the use of raw materials in porcelain manufacture, 8) made fuel tests...
Soldiers seized Koeff, who-on the verge of collapse-continually protested his innocence, although he had previously admitted it. The noose was thrown over his head and, a few seconds later, his body was dangling lifeless at the end of the rope...
...Esquimaux dogs which played hide and seek with them, some times however getting caught on the horns. "I've always wanted to ride a musk-ox," said the speaker, "and I found out what it would be like last spring. We caught a young one and tied a rope around his neck. He thought a wolf was on his back and bucked like a bronco, including falling on his back. I'd like to see a cowboy on a full grown musk...