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Everyone, including Mr. Sato, agreed that of course the Lausanne Treaty is to be torn up. Elected chairman of the Conference was Stanley Melbourne Bruce, one of the gallant Australians whom the Turks trounced at Gallipoli. Handsome Mr. Bruce, now High Commissioner of Australia in London, was gravely wounded during the slaughter of his countrymen by the Turks. Last week he asked Dr. Aras to please be considerate about the graves of Australian War dead in excavating for Dardanelles fortifications. This the swarthy, squint-eyed little Turk politely promised, patting the stalwart, pink-cheeked Australian reassuringly on the back...
...craft leaped high as it struck, careened through a crowd of spectators, crashed on top of a sound truck. Sportsman Spreckels was catapulted into the air against a telephone pole where he hung by an arm impaled on one of the climbing spikes. Taken down unconscious, with the arm torn open from shoulder to wrist, he was hospitalized with one of the spectators...
...agony as she underwent this "essential experience." I was speeding along a desolate stretch of road in southern California a few years ago when I saw the car ahead, the only other one in sight, slither to a haphazard stop beside the road. The driver was a woman, suddenly torn with pain. She had been driving alone into town when her time had come. Shaking with terror I jerked the cushioned seats from my car, made a bed for her in the shadow of her Ford, dumbly helped her as best I could. As she met her fate upon that...
...find members jobs, a number of them founded the Black Legion in 1933. The organization burgeoned. No man could apply for membership, but if sponsored by friends, was enticed to a meeting. There, with a revolver at his heart, he was permitted to declare his willingness to "be torn limb from limb and scattered to the carrion" if he betrayed a word of society secrets. After swearing to support God and the Constitution, to give his all in any "war" against Catholics, Jews, Negroes, aliens and Communists, he paid $7 for a robe, 10? monthly dues, bought himself...
...foundry for mechanical aid in treating such cases. Iron is cast through the use of sand cores that have the shape of the desired casting. We need a core that has the shape of the normal larynx so that we can mold from the amorphous mass of shattered cartilage, torn tissue and blood clots the opening necessary for the normal functioning of the organ." To do that Dr. Jackson has a set of expansible soft rubber rods of graduated diameters. First he makes a hole through the base of the patient's neck into the windpipe. This permits...