Word: weapon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...battalion of U. S. Army engineers was in charge of an expedition surveying the proposed route of the Nicaraguan Inter-Ocean Canal (see p. 18). Arriving in Managua, he took charge of the Marines' fire-fighting detachments. There was no water, no fire apparatus. Dynamite was his only weapon. Marine squads blew up a ring of houses round the blaze, fought the creeping flames with spadefuls of earth and adobe dust...
...farmhouse near Milan, Mo. lay a burly middle-aged man with a scarred lip, asleep. Near his pillow lay a loaded pistol. But he did not wake up when four stealthy-figures entered the bedroom and "covered" him with a submachine gun, did not have time to snatch his weapon before they had seized and beaten him into submission...
...that I am doing harm to India, you have the right to do so. ... I have no weapon against you except love. Let none take upon himself the duty of protecting me. God alone can do that . . . and mark my words: The day that my inner voice tells me my country no longer needs me I will starve myself to death" (sobs...
Captain H.C. Cassedy '31, H.B. Wesselman '31, and J.D. Allen '31 were the three men who composed the team. Allen finished third in the individual foils championship coming in behind Potter of Yale and Steero of Navy. Wesselman tied for second in the three weapon championship...
...Cadets won both team and individual first honors in the epee division. No Harvard team was competing for honors in this weapon, but K.R. Ludlam '33, the University's entrant for individual competition, did not place. The sabre team was defeated by Princeton...