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Running wild in the second half the Freshman soccer team overcame a one-goal deficit to swamp Tufts Freshman 6-2 here Wednesday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1941 Booters Crush Jumbos 6-2 With Second Half Drive | 11/12/1937 | See Source »

...benefit of warrants, seized the leaders of a tiny group of reformers, whisked them off to police headquarters where they were booked for "Communism." They were released with alacrity. Three of them were then escorted to waiting automobiles, driven into the country, flogged, tarred, feathered and left in a swamp. One of them, Joseph A. Shoemaker, partially paralyzed, so mutilated that one leg had to be amputated, died nine days later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLORIDA: Body & Limbs | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

...that swamp land there has risen the sixth largest city in the world. Around the international kernel has grown a Chinese city of nearly 4,000,000. souls. Just outside the city at Hungjao airdrome (see map) occurred the incident which started the war. There two Japanese sailors were reported murdered early this month, whereupon Japanese Admiral Hasegawa promptly demanded indemnity and the withdrawal of Chinese troops to a distance of 20 miles from the International Settlement. When the Chinese expressed distaste at being ordered out of their own country, the Japanese piled sailors ashore to reinforce their permanent garrison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN-CHINA: Sailors Ashore | 8/30/1937 | See Source »

...passenger did die-by suicidally jumping from a Stinson into a South Carolina swamp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Death at Daytona | 8/23/1937 | See Source »

...Aware of the circumstances of the trial, the Governor commutes Hale's sentence of death to life imprisonment, but Flodden's seething population has by this time long since made up its mind how the affair must end. The train taking Hale to prison stops beside a swamp and an angry crowd breaks into the baggage car where he is sitting with two detectives. Hale opens the door to jump, but looking up at him are the faces of the lynch mob. There is nothing much left of They Won't Forget after that except Reporter Brook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures: Cinema, Jul. 26, 1937 | 7/26/1937 | See Source »

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