Word: searchings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Relatives: Machine guns, search lights and fire-hoses were added to the defenses at Charlestown Prison, which none might "approach closer than 1,000 feet. Relatives of the prisoners, however, were admitted to the death house. To reach the death cells they had to pass the electric chair. Prisoner Vanzetti was allowed to leave his cell and embrace his sister, Luigia whom he had not seen for 19 years. Prisoner Sacco saw his wife and 14-year-old son, Dante, to whom he later wrote a farewell letter telling him to comfort his mother, fight the rich, help the weak...
Electricians were busy last week on the roof of a hotel in Charlottes ville, Va. Three miles away, across a valley, stood Monticello, old home of Thomas Jefferson. The electricians were adjusting a search light to play on Monticello, a searchlight so huge that were Mon ticello a mile nearer, the dazzling light would artificially "sunburn" a person standing on the old colonial porch at midwinter midnight. The special function for which the light was being got ready was a spectacle in honor of the Institute of Public Affairs which opened last week at the University of Virginia...
...election . . . ends a long and careful search for the 'rjght man' to succeed Dr. Olds, and there is every reason for confident hope that the right man has been found. ... It is significant that the three members of the board of trustees who, as a subcommittee, made the nomination, have each been prominently mentioned for the office and are generally recognized as well qualified for it. There is logic in the assumption that the judgment of their choice is well based."?Springfield (Mass.) Republican...
This success is due first to the genius of the man. His methods are unlimited expenditure in the employment of the best news noses; unflagging search for features...
Adenoidism is diffused throughout Italy, Premier Mussolini has found. Hence his instructions to eradicate it. School physicians and instructors, parents and guardians were admonished to search for adenoids in children. The cure is to cut out the overgrowths...