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...extra punch it didn't have before they were sent into the second battle with the Ithacans, and Mitch isn't going to break up a winning outfit. Charley Nevin, the siege gun who is leading the League in batting with a .500 average, will have another chance to push up his record...
...living. The old men, on the other hand, who have lived the greater portion of their lives have sat quietly by and looked on, amused perhaps. For them living for the sake of living has lost its value and only because of loyalties to some ideals do they push on towards a goal and wait patiently for their short span of life...
...night last week when he noticed two men coming across the street toward him, casting long shadows under the lights. Patrolman Pittenger saw that they carried machineguns. One of the men poked the barrel of his gun in Patrolman Pittenger's belly. When Pittenger tried to push it away, the other man stuck the stock of his gun into the policeman's back...
...Recent rains in South Dakota were cause for excitement at the stockholders' meeting of Chicago & North Western Ry. Drought and a grasshopper plague had combined with Depression to push North Western's deficit to $11,216,000 in 1932. Last year it was cut to $7,875,000. President Fred Wesley Sargent told his stock-holders last week that if North Western's earnings continued at the rate enjoyed for the first quarter the road would finish this year with a $2,000,000 profit...
...news, tears filled her expressive eyes. Waving her Greek passport at the Turkish immigration officers she demanded to go ashore to Insull's aid. Her passport did not have a Turkish visa and they refused. Desperate, she tried to push past them at the ship's rail. One of them seized her shoulder. She wrenched to get away, toppled backwards, slid over the rail into the harbor. She came up blowing the foul water from her mouth. A sailor with a boat hook fished her out. They carried her prostrate and drenched back to her cabin...