Word: cames
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...James District of the Arkansan Ozarks last winter came Connie Franklin, a shell-shocked War veteran escaped from the Arkansas Hospital for Nervous Diseases. He worked as a farm hand, wooed 16-year-old Tillir Ruminer. One evening last March they set out along a lonely path to be married. Suddenly nine men fell upon them. Tillir the attackers raped. Franklin they emasculated, tossed to death on a flaming woodpile...
...Archangel was captured by the Allies who immediately pushed south on five disconnected fronts. When the Armistice came, they found themselves frozen in for the winter. In January, with the temperature 30° below zero, the Red Army assaulted them, drove them back. The wounded died from exposure. Machine guns would work only from heated blockhouses. A bare hand touching metal was seared as by fire. Snow and continual darkness fought for the enemy. On March 30 occurred the "mutiny" of Company I of the 339th Infantry. So great was the demoralization of all troops that withdrawal was ordered with...
...origin of the asteroids, those thousands of tiny bodies that circulate around the sun in orbits between those of Jupiter and Mars, leaves much to be desired. Are they fragments of one or more small planets broken up by collision, or are they the wreckage of a planet that came too near to the gigantic Jupiter? Persistent observation and the development of mathematical theories should in time solve this mystery...
Enthusiastic dance-addicts crowded Symphony Hall 'Tuesday evening, to see the first Boston appearance of Harald Kreutzberg and Yvonne Georgi, (pronounced, incidentally, Yorghi). Small wonder at the enthusiasm, because this German couple came heralded with more superlatives than usual,--the leading exponents of the Modern Dance, the world's greatest dancers...
...interesting sidelight in Ticknor's career which bears witness to his coolness under fire came in this last Yale game. With one arm practically useless as the result of his bruising tackling he walked to the sidelines and asked for a substitute at center as he was unable to snap the ball back. Gildea went to center while the rangy Ticknor continued his stellar work at a guard post...