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Word: terrorism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...terrible subterranean roaring, cracking, quaking continued spasmodically, with violent surface undulations, the terror of which can be imagined only by those who have experienced it or who have read Edward Bulwer-Lytton's Last Days of Pompeii...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Quake News | 11/8/1926 | See Source »

...kicked, beat, bashed him with a milk bottle, shoved him around the floor with a broomstick, tried to smother him with a dressing gown. He lay so limp, with blood streaming from ear, nose, jaw, forehead and the base of his skull, that Carson was suddenly seized with cold terror...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Jag | 11/1/1926 | See Source »

...Cantonese who were only checked when Major V. K. Ting of Shanghai discovered their plot and ordered cut the railway over which they expected to receive re-enforcements. These developments, adding to the fear of an immediate onslaught by Chang Kaishek, left foreigners and Chinese alike terror-stricken in Shanghai...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Pigmy Colossus | 10/25/1926 | See Source »

Once there was a Williams back named Boynton, the terror of the Little Three. Now Boynton's little brother is carrying the ball for Williams, but against the indications of novel and efficient organization in the Cornell team, he could not carry it far. Score: Cornell, 49; Williams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Oct. 18, 1926 | 10/18/1926 | See Source »

Displaying a fast, versatile backfield behind a hard-charging line, with the two parts functioning in machine-like style, Brown crushed a bewildered Lehigh team by 32 to 0. Randall was a terror to the Lehigh defense, tearing through big holes in the line to reap gain after gain. Edes, at quarterback, was effective in running back kick, taking the ball on the dead run, and attaining his full speed almost at once. The cooperation of the line and backfield was excellent, and the Erunonians give every promise of being hard to stop in later games...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIVE OF THE UNIVERSITY'S SIX FUTURE OPPONENTS CONQUER RIVALS SATURDAY | 10/11/1926 | See Source »

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