Word: torning
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...throw the grenade out would kill a dozen men. Gritting his teeth. Lieutenant Jovice held on with both hands, keeping the bomb between his body and the wall. The fifth second passed, then a white flash, a crashing explosion. Lieutenant Jovice slumped to the floor, his right arm torn off at the shoulder. No one else was injured...
With a suddenness that jolted the world from its hopes for peace in war-torn China, pygmy President Chiang-Kai-shek, who conquered all China in three years, seized Manchuria's 250-million-dollar Chinese Eastern Railway, 1,179 miles long, which belies its name by belonging to Soviet Russia. Seized and packed post haste from Harbin, headquarters of the C. E. R., were 174 Soviet railway officials and! employes. They scuttled north, minus their belongings, into Siberia. General Manager A. I. Emshanov who had refused the peremptory request of Lu-Yung-hwang, President of the C. E. R. directorate...
...tabloid-size newspaper. When the Corriere first started, he related, a laborer wrote in from Trenton, N. J., and said: "Your newspaper is beautiful and interesting and I like it very much, but it is too small to wrap my lunch in." Added Editor Barzini: "There was torn from our eyes the veil of the mysteries of certain newspaper circulations...
...many a Manhattanite the Hell Gate Brewery of George Ehret is a familiar landmark. To many more George Ehret's lager beer is a pleasant memory. Last week it was announced that the brewery would close on Aug. 1, would be sold, torn down...
...every week that the goods remained unpurchased. Thus a dress might have a first price of $25, and, if not sold at this figure, go down to $22, to $20. to $18 until someone finally bought it. Many a thrifty Boston housewife, eyeing some Basement article, would stand torn with indecision, balancing her chance of waiting another week and getting a lower price. Forward-looking Brother Edward also secured for Filene's site a strategic corner where Boston's rapid transit trunk lines (Washington Street subway and Dorchester-Cambridge subway) meet. Generous, impulsive, Brother Edward Albert Filene stored...