Word: barrel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...famine of twenty-five years ago, fed three times the number of starving human beings that Hoover fed during the World War. And these unknown famine relief agents did not have the richest nation on earth sending food to them by the shipload and shoveling out money by the barrel to maintain an enormous organization...
From the Government benches across the House came an immediate answer? decisive, sudden bullets flew six times from the blue-steel barrel of an automatic pistol coolly aimed by Deputy Punica Ratchitch. Each bullet found a man and brought him down, wounding four, killing two. Paul Raditch, nephew of Stefan and father of seven, was one of those who died. Stefan Raditch crumpled with a bullet in his stomach. Fifty days later, in Zagreb, Croatian Capital, he died. That was last summer. To Croats, still, the name Raditch means Hero and Martyr. They gather in thousands to cry "Zhivoi Raditch...
Catapulting, previously experimented with, was tried out for the first time last week as an aid to a duration flight. The catapult roughly resembles a cannon on wheels. It can be trundled over a flying field wherever desired. Within the trough of the barrel a can of gasoline, oil or food is placed. The container rests against a powerful spring and has attached to it a rope. The rope hangs over two vertical, widely spaced arms fixed to the catapult chassis. In the mechanics of catapulting, a plane comes sweeping toward the machine about 20 feet from the ground. From...
...Long had contended that the impeachment campaign against him was instigated by the Standard Oil Co. as a reprisal against his demand for a 5?^ per barrel oil-refining tax to raise funds for state improvements...
...executioner's duty to take a two-handed, heavy-bladed sword, and from a comfortable stance remove the prisoner's head with one well-timed full swing. In the new order of things, prisoners' brains will be blown out by pressing a revolver barrel firmly against the back of the skull and pulling the trigger...