Word: torning
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...hardest tricks in surgery is the repair of torn nerves. Every human being has a fixed number of nerve cells at birth, and, unlike other cells, they do not multiply. Torn nerve fibres heal only by sending forth tendrils toward the severed ends. In stitching together jagged nerve ends, surgeon must be careful not to pull the nerve taut, must draw the silk through the petal-thin nerve sheath, not through its body...
...puzzled, torn at heart was George Norris, and he told the Senate why: "Conscription is contrary to the spirit of human freedom ... in time it will ruin democracy." Yet: "I concede that they [the dictators] would like to conquer the U. S. . . ." Yet again: he would rather "see the end come and cross the river into all eternity," than see one-half of the U. S. toiling and sweating to support the other half under arms. He could concede that conscription was "the fair way to raise an army." But he could not support conscription in peacetime, even...
...international relations in a war-torn world were not only bewildering but disillusioning. Young Philip Stegerer of Washington, D. C., who enlisted last February in the Canadian Active Service Force, was honorably discharged because of old injuries and was preparing to return home. But a U. S. board of inquiry decided that, since he had pledged allegiance to George VI, he was no longer a U. S. citizen. He could not re-enter his country...
...Franklin decided last week that his new transatlantic liner would go into the West Indies cruise business (early this week ports of call had not been chosen). At the same time he announced that his twin smaller liners Washington and Manhattan, now busy evacuating U. S. refugees from war-torn Europe, would begin next month a regular passenger service between the Port of New York and the Pacific Coast by way of the Panama Canal...
Georges Bernanos is concerned with the least stylish of possible human attributes: holiness. "Compared to it, even the urge of genius is a frivolous game. Lord, every life finely lived bears witness to You. But the witness which is borne by saints must be torn with irons out of their bodies...