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...Club is unique in the University. One of its oldest institutions, the Gun Club has taken an active part in University and intercollegiate sports since its founding in 1883. Until 1920 the Club owned a clubhouse and trap on Soldiers Field, but after that time it was found more convenient to use the Boston Athletic Association's traps at Riverside...
...exhortation. What he said may be judged from his public utterances: "England's effort toward creating a security compact is simply a part of her insidious anti-Soviet activity. . . . England sees in Germany a mere pawn to be used against Russia... Germany must not fall into the British trap...
...baiting of the religious trap may be carried to still greater lengths. Last Sunday evening the First Methodist Episcopal church of Lynn managed to gather three thousand people within its walls through the admirable device of showing movies to the congregation and advertising the affair beforehand with electric signs and a trumpeter in fancy dress...
...Cairo seven men were led onto a platform. One by one a trap door opened beneath their feet, and they went dangling into eternity. They were the men convicted of the murder of the British sirdar, Sir Lee Stack (TIME, Dec. 1, 1924). Six of the men, all youths, went bravely to their doom. The seventh an older man, able lawyer, brains of the conspiracy, struggled and wept. An eighth man, convicted, had his sentence commuted at the last minute because he had confessed promptly after his capture and had facilitated the capture of the others...
However, it is not thought likely that Premier Kato will die like a rat in a trap, but will dissolve the Diet and hold new elections, relying upon the 9,000,000 extra electors which he recently enfranchised (TIME, Apr. 6) to show their appreciation of his endeavors by voting for his (the Kenseikai) Party...