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Patrolman Jack Tevlin heard the crash of falling glass as he was passing by at 4.45 o'clock and hurried to turn in an alarm. Flames had already burst through the back windows on the third floor of the building by the time the alarm was actually turned...
...Liberty motor revolves at 1,600 revolutions per minute-so rapidly that a point on the blade may travel at 500 miles an hour. The impact of a bird at such speed would be terrific, and the propeller being already strained to a high point by centrifugal force, would burst into a dozen pieces; this might cut wires and cause dire wreckage, if not complete collapse of the plane...
...reception committee of city officials. Aeroplanes circled overhead. A naval reserve unit was at hand to fire a salute. A train swept in, and Edwin Denby descended to meet Detroit's welcome. Factories and steamboats whistled. He marched to his car, and the Police Department band burst into melody...
Tears were the order of the day on her first appearance as a witness. On her second appearance she was composed, but inclined to burst into giggles. "Daugherty's giggling nemesis," one newspaper called her. Tall, handsome, 30-odd, with her dark brown hair bunched over her ears, wearing a full-length black sealskin coat?so was she described...
...boil which has been festering in the side of Princeton for years has at last burst, covering the whole body with its disgusting discharge. Never have conditions during Bicker Week been as revolting and degrading as those of the last four days. Slander, gossip, and mud-slinging have been the rule instead of the exception. Yesterday witnessed a method of club election which would have put any decent slave-dealer during the worst days of human barter to the blush. Men were passed or rejected in a manner that would make the gorge of any decent man rise. But even...