Word: torning
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...Torn by the wind, worn, burnt out and battered, these were crippled birds. Over the tilting continent they limped on raveled wings. Their lifting power was now so impaired, due to the yield of fabrics and skeleton, that they could not attain an elevation of more than 6,500 ft. The bastions ,of the Rockies, therefore, were impassable; they felt obliged to skirt them. The route was changed. Leaving Chicago, they were scheduled to fly, not by way of Cheyenne and Salt Lake City, but to veer south, with Omaha, Dallas and Tucson as their main stopping places...
...said proclamation is hereby revoked." ¶President Coolidge drew up his plan for the relief of agriculture through the appointment of a commission to study the causes of de pression and to suggest means of removing them. ¶To the Naval Governor, Capt. Henry H. Hough, of the tornado-torn Virgin Islands the President addressed ,a message: "Am deeply distressed to hear of the tragedy that has befallen the people of the Virgin Islands. Will you convey to them my sincere sympathy, particularly to the bereaved relatives of those who have been killed?" ¶Ambassador Houghton, home on vacation from...
...rode his bicycle slowly around the Newark Velodrome, bowing, smiling, showing off a silver loving cup that had just been given him as emblem of the world's cycling derby championship. A few minutes before, Spencer, back arched like a cat's, legs pumping furiously, had torn after Peter Moe-skops, giant Hollander, who won the world's title at Paris in August, had "nipped him at the tape" by inches in the last heat of their third match race in ten days...
...descended from the mountains of animosity from which they have long been accustomed to glare at one another, went down the rugged mountain paths of doubt, crossed the bog of misgivings and set foot on the great, wide road that leads to a true economic resettlement of the War-torn Continent...
...that its chief interest lies in the development of the devices by which the man and the woman existed and finally made themselves comfortable in a hidden wilderness. When they arrived, via a gorge of rapids, the woman had no standard equipment at all (her bathing suit had been torn off by the torrent's claws) and the man had only a coat, trousers, undershirt and a hunting knife. Before the rescue, a good many weeks later, they were living in a log bungalow with a full line of cooking utensils, clothes and toilet articles. Manufacture of these things...