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...Italian again, he suddenly appeared at the head of his tribesmen, wrecked and raided the small railway station of Lassarat, seized rifles and munitions, but prudently faded into the mountains without tearing up the tracks. ¶ Day after day Italian aviators continued to drop bombs on Daggah Bur, a heap of dust that once was a mud village marking the northernmost point of Italy's advance on the South Front. The town was abandoned. Ethiopians insisted that a wounded chicken was the only casualty. ¶ Most graphic description of the reason for the stalling of Italy's advance...
...economic struggle are factors in tooth decline, showed photographs of Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon skulls proving that even those oldtimers had pyorrhea. On exhibit from Northwestern University was a ponderous Stone Age flint hammer, presumably an early instrument for curing dental hurts since it was found with a little heap of broken teeth. In making and fitting false teeth, dentists have found it harder to make lower plates stay put than uppers. Drs. Charles Shepard Tuller and Sydney C. Fournet of New Orleans disclosed a "Revolutionary mechanical principle utilized to produce full lower dentures surpassing in stability the best modern...
Through a cemetery in San Antonio, Tex. one day last week moved soldiers, priests, politicians, Governor James V. Allred, San Antonio's Catholic Archbishop Arthur Jerome Drossaerts, Mexico's exiled Apostolic Delegate Leopoldo Ruiz y Flores, and a hearse bearing a coffin containing a heap of old bones. Into a fresh grave went the bones, good Catholic dust, buried 200 years ago in a San Antonio mission cemetery, lately dug up in good preservation during excavation for a new post office...
...chagrined by George's good luck that he hastened to rebuke Austria for not having done the same for him, indicated that he is the solution to Europe's peace and hoped that Austria would hurry before it was obliged to summon him to rule "a heap of ruins...
...left the controls and tried to pull Koenecke down. . . . Finally I grabbed the fire extinguisher. I walloped him over the head with it." A dozen times, Mulqueeny bashed the wild man, splashing blood and extinguishing fluid all over the cabin walls. At last Koenecke slumped into a heap. Just in time. Pilot Mulqueeny jumped back to his controls, managed to land the plane on a dark racecourse at New Toronto. When the police arrived, they found Koenecke practically naked, frightfully battered, dead...