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Without anyone's having done anything Cruiser A began to slide down the ways-nameless. It was time for HINDENBURG to seize that bottle of wine and hurl it with all his strength, hoping to hit-christen the now fast moving Cruiser...
...your issue of April 20, p. 17, under heading "Fall of Michigan," you state that when this tree crashed some of the pieces were hurled 500 yards. Some trees! Some crash-to hurl pieces of the tree more than a quarter of a mile...
...experiment is to be performed at the Berlin Institute of Physical Research. Artificial lightning of 15 million volts, most ever created by man, will be generated to hurl at the atoms by a new secret invention. In the quiet courtyard of the institute, the German scientists have constructed a unique laboratory-an aluminum-lined chamber which looks like a huge boiler. It is built half underground on a concrete foundation...
...American Legion is taking an inauspicious moment for the country, and an opportune one for the organization itself, to put a large thumb in the affairs of state. Orders which were sent out from national headquarters of the organization yesterday urge the soldiers to hurl a barrage at Washington demanding immediate legislation on treasury grants...
...casement windows Saxon sunbeams glint upon carved oak. In such a setting presiding Judge Baumgarten (except when fiddling with one of his ears) is a sight awesome as Olympian Jove. Boldly to face the justice down, to use the Supreme Court dome as a demagog's thumping tub, to hurl from dem Reichsgericht a defy which reverberated throughout Europe, such was the feat last week of Adolf Hitler, No. I Brown Shirt Fascist (TIME...