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Word: weirman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wholfe and Conn were on the receiving end of the two Dartmouth touchdown passes, while Weirman plunged over for the other touchdown. The additional three points were scored by Koslowski in the final period when he booted the ball squarely between the uprights...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Green Papooses Romp 23-14 Over Yardling Football Team | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

Convict James McGrath and Convict John Weirman sped across the Delaware River bridge toward Morrisville, Pa. Near Oxford Valley, Pa., they wrecked their machine, fled into a cornfield. Two airplanes went aloft and began to circle the cornfield looking for the hiding convicts. The afternoon waned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Death in a Cornfield | 11/2/1931 | See Source »

...began to grow dark one of the airplanes spotted Weirman, clothed in the white uniform of a prison cook. The police surrounded the field, closed in. Policeman Joseph Campbell Jr. saw a foot sticking out of a shock of corn, ordered its owner out. Convict McGrath came out shooting and Policeman Campbell fell fatally wounded. An instant later his companions had avenged him and McGrath lay dying. Meanwhile, other policemen searched for Weirman. Finally they came upon him lying still on the ground. Desperado Weirman, seeing he could not escape, had put the muzzle of his riot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Death in a Cornfield | 11/2/1931 | See Source »

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