Word: somes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Riots and bloodshed ensued. Tear bombs were hurled. Several hundred strikers were arrested at once and herded, shouting and cursing, into the Carter County Courthouse auditorium. The tiny jail was full. No sooner did law officers release some of the prisoners, than others were brought in. Elizabethton's 16...
The first explosion was followed by a second, greater one. Glass was blown from the windows. The force of the explosion blew out a skylight and the descending fragments fell through a shaft upon the people seated in the waiting room three floors below. Plaster showered from walls and ceilings...
"It is due to the high arsenic content of the soil that these skeletons have been so well preserved," said a Sorbonne professor inspecting a cadaver whose clutching fingers showed the agony of his death. "This portion of the prison dates from the 12th Century, perhaps earlier." Skeletons sat upright...
These were some of the plans disclosed last week by deep-voiced, horn-bespectacled Henry Killam Murphy, able Manhattan architect, designer of"Yale in China" (Ya-li), Changsha, Hunan; Yenching University, Peking; William ("Billy") Lyon Phelps's residence. New Haven, Conn. Undeterred by wars, far-sighted President Chiang Kai...
Followed a rapid drive through the streets to Chapultepec Castle. General Calles, still in his war clothes-a big felt hat and tan suede "windbreaker"-looked tired but happy. At Chapultepec Castle he remained in secret conference with the President for some time, then motored to his own home.