Word: waters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bloodshed ensued. Tear bombs were hurled. Several hundred strikers were arrested at once and herded, shouting and cursing, into the Carter County Courthouse auditorium. The tiny jail was full. No sooner did law officers release some of the prisoners, than others were brought in. Elizabethton's 16-inch water conduit was dynamited three miles out of town. Schools closed. Trucks trundled to Johnson City, eleven miles away, for drinking water. Homes of strikers and strikebreakers were dynamited, barns burned...
There was a steel fire door on the film room fitted with a thermostat to close it if the temperature became too high. But sometime before, a blundering plumber had placed a water pipe in such a way that although it did not prevent the closing of the door by hand, it interfered with the aim of the automatic closing device. The door failed to close when the film began to burn and the gases (both poisonous and explosive) issuing forth, were driven through the building by a ventilating fan a few feet away...
Lean, wiry Bacha Sakao, "The Water Carrier," bandit King of Afghanistan sat, unconcerned, in the capital city of Kabul last fortnight while the King he drove from the throne, plump, oily Amanullah, prestidigitated in far off Kandahar to show his fitness to rule...
Harpers Magazine for June, according to an advance announcement, contains an article of particularly timely interest for this season of the year. Frederic F. van de Water, author and literary columnist of the New York Evening Post, has written a story entitled "The Saturnalia of College Reunions". Mr. van de Water attended New York University and Columbia...
...parallel to the ground, the shaft perpendicular, the left elbow pointing to the hole, the hands within breathing distance of his stomach in a posture as of prayer. Few tyros try to copy his style, though perhaps it will suit at his new club in Aqua Caliente ("Hot Water"), Mexico...