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Word: scalps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though it failed to kill, Daniel Flores' fusillade wrought damage. One bullet broke the already deeply scarred jaw of President Ortiz Rubio; another carried away part of the right ear and grazed the scalp of his wife, Senñora Ortiz Rubio; another wounded his niece, Señorita Maria Rosh; a fourth grazed Chauffeur Felix Galvan. Flying glass cut the President's secretary, Col. Hernandez Chazaro, and a friend, one Sostenes Garcia. There were two misses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Inauguration Without Assassination | 2/17/1930 | See Source »

...fact that we, in North Dakota, who live West of the Mississippi River where some of our good neighbors in the East seem to think the climate unlivable, the 'wild jackasses run rampant,' where the buffaloes still eat our cabbages in our gardens and the Indians scalp our children on their way to school, nevertheless can raise high-class stock and grains of all kinds. . . . North Dakota is rapidly forging to the front as a highly diversified farming State...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 6, 1930 | 1/6/1930 | See Source »

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