Word: jawed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...paying their fare. When they resolutely denied the charge, four Japanese policemen held them down in turn while Japanese detectives beat each man in the face. Under this treatment two of the three British tars agreed to sign a declaration that they were guilty. The third, although his jaw was broken, still refused to sign. While police again held him down, a Japanese detective jabbed the point of a fountain pen deeply under the sailor's nails and vigorously worked the fountain pen lever, shooting ink into the wounds until the sweating prisoner agreed to take the pen, sign...
...Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan (pop. 21,000,000) one day 20 years ago, word reached a young woman named Lydia Gruchy that her brother Arthur had met his death in the War. Arthur Gruchy had been studying for the ministry. Grief-stricken, sister Lydia resolved to carry on for her brother, to do as much for God as a woman could. She entered St. Andrew's Theological College in Saskatoon, the first woman in the Dominion to study theology. In 1923 Lydia Gruchy completed her courses. But when the United Church of Canada was formed two years later...
...from Valparaiso University, but had to teach another year to pass law library. He was one of the senators to vote against America's entry in the war. Republican in name only he threw aside partisanship years ago, supported Al Smith and Roosevelt, thrust his seamed face and jutting jaw and untrammeled thinking into making a fight like that over the purchase of Muscle School. "My College," he says, "had been the farm." As if to prove it, he still drives a plow through Nebraska state every summer...
...money to her old friend Bill, who bet it on the professional. Big Steve fishes the bearer of the news, Mrs. Finney's little boy, out of a slag box just before a mass of red-hot slag pours into it. Afterward he smashes Bill Morgan's jaw, takes the money back, confers with Mrs. Finney about matrimony...
...Between the years 1912 and 1914 Mr. Charles Dawson found in a stratum of gravel at Piltdown Sussex, fragments of a fossilized skull and jaw which were reconstructed by Sir Arthur Smith Woodward as Eoanthropus, the famed man of Piltdown. Some scholars refused to believe at first that a skull so human could be associated with a jaw so apelike, but present-day consensus is that the fragments actually belonged to one individual. Most anthropologists-notably excepting Sir Arthur Keith-hold that the Piltdown man, like the Pekin man and the Java apeman, were offshoot types which died...