Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Crimson are now fully recovered from various injuries of the season and Skip will be able to put a strong force in the field. The lineup will be the same as for the Boston Lacrosse Club match last Saturday, with plenty of shooting strength in the forward wall and three light, speedy players in the midfield...
Brigadier General Maxwell Murray, commander of the Washington Provisional Brigade, ascended to the dome of the Capitol one day last week and trained a pair of high-powered binoculars down on Pennsylvania Avenue. Lining the street on both sides, all the way to the White House, was a solid wall of U. S. soldiers and marines. Behind the walls massed the Washington populace, patrolled by 751 policemen, 400 firemen. Overhead roared nine flying fortresses, 42 Army pursuit ships. Drawn up from the Capitol to Union Station were more soldiers, and filling the station plaza were cavalry, 30 tanks, a battery...
...British Vice Consul was struck three times, and fires surrounded the German Embassy & Consulate where, all night, the Consul General and his wife waited with cans of water to fight the flames. As morning came they watched helplessly while 100 Chinese, trapped against the base of the city wall outside their house, were burned to death...
...Manhattan, one John Bowie Carter wanted $1,000,000 so he could get started on a "humanitarian play" covering events from 1649 to the 1940 Presidential election. He wired to the New York Daily News: "Will hold up J. P. Morgan's Wall Street headquarters at 11:07 a. m. . . ." Police met him there right on time. In his pocket they found a bag containing six lollypops...
...YORK--Wall Street sentiment improved moderately last week and stocks edged up to around the best levels in a month. Trading dwindled, however, to the slowest pace since last June, most operators pursuing a cautious policy...