Word: slain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Throughout the U. S., suburban residents have been complaining this year of what amounts to a squirrel plague, while rural citizens bemoan that squirrels are near extinction. Naturalists explain that pothunters and automobiles have slain thousands over the countryside, while squirrels in close city trees and garrets are zealously, fondly protected...
Last week near Manoa, Pa., Farmer John Trout showed Game Warden Robert T. MacFarlane a bald eagle with a wingspread of better than seven feet which he had slain with two blasts of his shotgun. Warden MacFarlane exonerated Farmer Trout on the strength of Mrs. Trout's story: that she had seen the great bird swooping into the farmyard to carry off their daughter Dorothy...
...langourous if slightly boring, where there is time for tea between questionings, and where the victim is smothered and the body laid comfortably in a sheriff's flower patch. In "The Westminster Mystery", the reader is caught in the mad rush of modern life. A Hollywood cinema idol is slain and his death becomes the cue for a grisly set of suicides and murder...
...saints (TIME, April 7; July 7, 1930), excavators had discovered two complete skeletons and the skull of a third. Archeologist Parker was asked to determine their identity. They might be the remains of three of the eight saints?Isaac Jogues, Rene Goupil and John Lalande, Jesuit missionaries?who were slain near Auriesville by Iroquois Indians in the middle of the 17th Century...
...among Indo-China's Annamites, a fighting people gifted with both intelligence and guile. Near Vinh, the provincial capital of North Annam, some 5,000 Annamites gathered not long ago and began the march upon the capital. Bombing planes were sent out against them. Two hundred natives were slain. The slaughter was comparable in every way to the notorious British massacre of Indians at Amritsar in 1919-for it turned out that the 5,000 Annamites were, in this particular instance, unarmed, had only been making a march of protest...