Word: two
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hillsdale, Mich., one A. N. Thorpe working on his house, found between two walls a solid honeycomb, six feet high, three feet thick...
...clash between Soviet Russians and a force composed of Chinese and White Russians near the frontier town of Pogranichnaya. Wounded: twelve Chinese, two White Russians, five Red Russians...
...Arthur Conan Doyle was sitting in his garden near Southampton, England, with his family (wife, two sons, a daughter), when flames suddenly burst from the roof of his house. For an hour, local firemen, 100 villagers and the Doyles labored to save books and manuscripts. An old part of the house was consumed, a new addition saved. No Sherlock Holmes was needed to detect the cause: a spark on the old dry roof...
...South Bend, Ind., hearing that the city zoo wanted a pair of bald eagles, two South Benders went afield and obtained two large, bald birds from a farmer named MacMillan. A patriotic judge fined Farmer MacMillan $13 for violating the Federal law against taking captive the National Bird. A zoologist helped Farmer MacMillan recover his $13 by identifying the National Birds as buzzards...
Taken to a hospital and given an electric bath, he remained unconscious for hours, finally muttered incoherent tales. One was that while he was asleep two men had entered, committed violence upon him. Signs in his room of a violent struggle belied this. Another was that he had met a stranger outside his flat, invited him in for a drink, was having a peaceful conversation when the stranger knocked him down, sat on his chest, carved his face with a razor...