Word: tunnels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...active police became still more active, discovered a third bomb, in- tended to blow up the royal train as it passed through a tunnel on its return journey to Madrid. Fourteen arrests were made, but each of the prisoners denied all knowledge of the plot...
...tunnel where there was no light...
...statement from his Government in Paris. When the Council reassembled, it was obvious that the impression made by Mr. Chamberlain's well-reasoned reading of his Government's document was gloomy; as M. Briand subsequently put it: "I had the impression of being in blackness, in a tunnel where there was no light." Rising, however, in a later session, M. Priand, seven times Premier of France, vigorously assailed the British Government's contentions. He started...
...Council of the People's Commissars (Cabinet) of the Central Government at Moscow, accompanied by Foreign Minister Georg Tchitcherin, journeyed to the town of Leninkin, operated a sluice to the strains of Internationale, opened the Shiraksky Canal, 40 miles long. Two miles of its course runs through a tunnel bored under rocky mountains. It is designed to irrigate 15,000 acres and is the first engineering feat of any consequence attempted during the Bolshevik régime...
...property in question consists of a rather large vacant lot directly back of the Brock Building. This piece of land is large enough to accommodate a good-sized theatre, and space is available for an entrance tunnel to the sidewalk of Massachusetts Avenue just north of the "Splendid" cafeteria. This entrance tunnel would, however, necessitate the removal of one or two of the stores which now occupy that block...