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Dillon: That's all I want to know. (Loud groan from the crowd. Dillon takes up the questioning. Eventually Ely intervenes, gives Gill a chance to explain...
When these words of Dr. Piperno's come to his ears- "Questo si fara soffrire un poco" (This is going to hurt a little)- Il Duce does not groan and stiffen his limbs. Instead he merely growls, "Non temo il dolore" (I do not fear pain...
...plate king, has there been a tin plate industry, separate and distinct. "Tin Plate" Leeds and his fabulous friends, Judge William Moore, promoter extraordinary, and Daniel Gray ("Czar") Reid, tossed their tin plate trust into T. S. Steel Corp. at a price which made the Elder John Pierpont Morgan groan. What they did keep was the tin can trust. Today most tin plate is made by steel companies and most tin plate is used by can companies. For American Can is no longer a trust but merely the biggest concern in a competitive field. Thus the present tin plate boom...
When all had gone, the old man went over to the washstand. In his hand flashed a cheap little butcher knife. The men outside the door heard him groan. Bursting in, they could see his face in the mirror, contorted with pain. He was still trying to push the knife through his ribs...
Elsewhere throughout the world there was similar activity. It centred in 350 cities, took place at the same hours _ in each on six days of last week. It occupied the attention of some 22,000 preparatory and high school students. Soon schoolboys who meet on holidays will groan in exaggerated despair. "How'd you make out?" or boast cockily: "It was a pipe." Then in Manhattan clerks will write out, for each & every one, a certificate of grades from the College Entrance Examination Board...