Word: crushes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...completely encircling Chinchow. In the city (Japanese estimated) were 8,000,000 rounds of ammunition which Chinese might fire. During the week Lieut. General Tamon's forces cautiously advanced south from Mukden, easily brushing aside Chinese skirmishers in a series of minor clashes, and prepared to meet and crush the first serious Chinese resistance, expected at Kowpangtze, 50 mi. north of Chinchow. Japanese troops camouflaged as snow men in long white gowns crawled forward eleven miles fighting every inch of the way. The temperature was 30 below zero. Japanese scouting planes reported a force of at least 3.000 Chinese...
Throne Speech, In his gilded coach & six George V clattered to Parliament, wrapped himself in regal robes, clapped on the Empire's sparkling crown, grasped his sceptre and seated himself on Brit ain's Throne in the House of Lords. Standing in a subway crush behind the bar of the House of Lords, eager M. P.'s squashed each other in their efforts to hear His Majesty read a speech written by Scot MacDonald: "My Lords, Mem bers of the House of Commons. . . . My Government is giving particularly close attention to . . . the approaching Disarmament Conference...
...Bishop Cannon to sit on the platform. Bishop Cannon complained, left the room unapplauded. In marked contrast last week, 2,000 people in Atlanta's Wesley Memorial Church applauded vigorously as Bishop Cannon, still suffering from arthritis ("aggravated," said he, "by the thrusts of Wet interests seeking to crush me") crutched his way down the 'aisle to take a seat on the platform. Night before, speaking in Atlanta Auditorium on "Prohibition Repeal Unthinkable-Shall the Officials Enforce the Law?," he had told his hearers, Heflin-wise: "I am almost sure to be indicted, because of the Roman Catholic...
...School, it is like this. School, it is like big sugar-house. It crush and maul us and spin us round. And we go out sweet like sugar. . . . Life, it is like this too. It whip us and pound us, but we come sweet like sugar. . . . We might come like bagasse. Just cane with all the juice crushed...
From Cleveland's Museum of Natural History came Director Henry L. Madison to have a look. He said: "After consulting reptile texts I am convinced it is a Python molurus."† He also said the creature was big and strong enough to crush a horse. No one could decide how a Python molurus happened to be in Lake Erie...