Word: universit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after protest riots in which several students were killed. The underground helped him to escape from house arrest at Troyes and cross the border. His son-in-law, Jacques Solomon, was among the organizers (all of whom were shot by the Nazis) of the clandestine scientific journal, L'Université Libre...
...least twelve Nazi tanks were destroyed by the bottles. Huge quantities of guncotton were made from cotton received a bale at a time. Radio transmitters and receivers were assembled for the underground despite, in some cases, Nazi occupancy of the same buildings. Joliot continued the publication of L'Université Libre, which reached a fortnightly circulation of a thousand...
...found the same situation at the apartment of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Mowrer, 146 rue de l'Université, where their maid had covered the furniture, hidden the radio and fought off those who had attempted to requisition it. Although the maid had not been paid since 1940, she had come in twice a week to keep the place clean...