Word: torning
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...torn regions fill the President with horror;" so cries the Boston Herald in an emotional headline. The statement, of course, is reasonable enough. We might expect that any normal man on viewing the devastation of the most destructive war in history would experience an emotion something akin to horror. Mr. Wilson, in spite of his six years in the presidency, is yet normal and there is nothing sensational in his feeling very much as other...
...restored to its previous condition and will be fitted up with lounges as before. The Reading Room, which was used by the Naval men, will continue to serve as a dining room for upperclassmen. The Shed which was erected as a shelter for the Naval Unit will be torn down...
...Impromptu from Senlin" by Conrad Aiken '11 is rather monotonously sad. However, it suffers from being torn out of a long narrative poem...
...Germans, the French, and Americans--whole blocks, of houses are laid flat, with no stone on top of another--unless perchance the under stone may sometimes be above. And in those towns, in shells of houses, windows and often whole walls missing, roofs gone or rent and torn, the civilians were coming back. I saw stores being reopened, houses being set up, debris cleared away. I saw a meat market starting again, the people passing in and out through a hole in the wall, the whole corner of the building having been sheared off. I saw a clothing store again...
...words of General French, "saved the situation". Behind the city, under a grove of Canadian maples, lie six thousand of Canada's bravest sons, her first contribution in the Great War to the defence of the mother country. And now on the slopes about the shell-torn city stand England's own sons, gathered in the divisions of England's volunteer and conscript army. Commanders may debate the strategic value of the city as they did at Verdun, but the events of the last two weeks prove that if it is evacuated it will not be because of the defection...