Word: tears
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...turned a deaf ear to the throaty gurgles of Guardian editors catching their first sight of hard cash in over a year and lapsed again into reverie, permitting a mental tear to soften his brain. Oh, to be a Freshman one more. To have four years of certain free summers ahead. To be free from having to think of something to be. Vag experienced slight nausea at his own nostalgia, and his thoughts swung to what courses he might sit in on this year. There was always Merriman's first lecture, a phenomenon in itself. There would be Holcombe...
...most tear-jerking farewells in its 250-year history was said last week in Edinburgh by the 4th & 7th Dragoon Guards (a regiment of cavalry combining the 4th Royal Irish Dragoons and the 7th Dragoon Guards or Princess Royal's). Henceforth, in order to keep up with the pace of modern war, members of the regiment will go forth to die or be maimed not on plunging chargers but in armored cars. In its last mounted parade before mechanization, the regiment heard Lieut. General Sir Charles Grant read a message of consolation from its honorary colonel, Major General Arthur...
...Hire-Purchase Act cracks down on many of the sharp practices employed by British sellers on the installment plan, permits buyers who are unable to complete their payments to take back the goods for cash, less a fair reduction for wear & tear...
...last week the British cruiser Orion was anchored in Kingston Harbor; special police and militia were stationed at every street corner with riot guns and tear gas. At the end of the day 52 people had been killed, some 70 more badly injured-but not in fighting. The front engine of a five-car, two-engine train on the Jamaica Central Railway, packed with Kingston citizens going to the country for the Liberation Day weekend, left the rails going up a steep grade outside Balaclava. The rear engine kept going, pushed the front engine over an embankment, piled four...
...medical profession." As for the plan, he continued "centralization of control of medical service by any State agency" would bring "great danger to the health of the nation." Said Editor Fishbein, vexed that Miss Roche had not consulted the potent A. M. A. in preparing her program: "I could tear to pieces . . . this program. . . . Medical care is not the most important problem before the people of the United States today. . . . The fundamental needs of mankind are food, fuel, clothing, shelter and a job, and medical care and dental care must always be subservient to these main human needs...