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Explosives. Extremely dangerous are the dynamite-caps or detonators used for blasting in mines. Last year a Baltimore woman, opening the door of a furnace, was struck in the breast by a copper pellet no bigger than a pinhead, which killed her. Investigation showed that the pellet had come from a detonator, no doubt left in the coal by a miner; that such detonators not only hurl a pellet at 6,000 ft. per sec. (three times the speed of a rifle bullet) but throw hundreds of minute shreds of copper, each able to penetrate nearly a millimetre of brass...
Matthew Chrostowski. New England and A. A. U. 100, 200, and 220-yard freestyle champ and interscholastic world record holder in the 50 and 100-yard events, and Johnny Higgins, National and A. A. U. 100-yard. 100-meters and 220-yard breast stroke titles and world interscholastic holder of the 50, 100, and 220-yard titles are two of three swimmers...
Coach Muir of the Freshmen is gradually rounding his charges into shape although there is a marked dearth of outstanding material available. All the Yardlings are improving fast, however, and in Bill Bixby, Muir sees a sure point winner in the breast stroke events...
...times, excepting the Crucifixion of the devine Son of Man," and reached its climax in: "Yes, but the ashes of the darling baby, victim of a fiend urged by greed of gain, and seeking pleasure, are mute witnesses of the Crime, while within every American's breast there is a beating of the heart, tolling the death-knell of every gangster, while the Stars and Stripes fly from every staff and masthead...
...been my misfortune to see in 20 odd years of experience of wars. So wrote all the rest. A Dr. Loeb, Wartime surgeon in the German army, hustled newshawks to where he had laid out the body of a woman who had had both legs and a breast torn off by bomb splinters. ''This." said he, "is the best proof of the benefits of civilization I ever...