Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stone that is thought to the billions of years older than the stones of the earth's crust, older, indeed, than the earth itself, and whose secrets are the same as the ultimate secrets of the origin and existence of the material universe, was exhibited last Wednesday night by Professor Harlow Shapley, director of the Harvard Astronomical Observatory, in the second of a series of five lectures in the new Commerce Hall Auditorium of the College of the city of New York...
...Watch and Ward Society brought heavy fines and prison terms to James A. DeLacey, manager of the Dunster House bookshop, and Joseph Sullivan, clerk in the shop, which is located on South street. DeLacey was fined $800 and sentenced to four months in the house of correction by Judge Stone of the Cambridge court. Sullivan was fined $200 and sentenced to two weeks in the house of correction...
...Judge- Stone, summing up the case, characterized the book as the most vicious piece of literature he ever read in his life and the vilest he ever saw in his 25 years on the bench...
...Bark, an aged black gelding, won the international individual championship for military jumpers. Tan Bark committed six and one-half faults but won because Lieut. Francesco Formigli and his Italian Army mount got messed up on a stone wall and the triple bars...
...Sandy Lake, Manitoba, aged Paul Boychuk, miller, proudly inspected a giant grist-grinder which he had invented many years ago. It included a strange lumber framework, a steam engine, a mighty boulder whirling rapidly in air. As he watched, the revolving stone split into countless fragments. A 150-lb. piece struck Miller Boychuk, killed...