Word: saltingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Convention. In Salt Lake City, Utah's G.A.R. held its 60th annual convention, nominated Ira Stormes, 96, for the organization's presidency, re-elected him for the eleventh consecutive time. The Utah G.A.R.'s entire membership: Ira Stormes...
Sleep. In Los Angeles, the parents of weary Thomas Hall, 21, left him at home asleep, returned several hours later, found that a 100-ft. tree had crashed through the house into the living room. Thomas was still asleep. In Salt Lake City, the Edward G. Thomas family slept undisturbed while somebody stole a ton of coal from their coal shed...
After seeing the winning run on third three times, the visitors caught on in the 14th inning with a two-tally uprising to salt away the decision and incidentally, undisputed possession of second place in the Eastern Intercollegiate League...
...response to questions from the floor, General Hershey thought that a compulsory law to draft labor would be unnecessary, saying that rather the nation's working forces would be guided "as some farmers train their cows: by spreading salt on the desired path, at the same time throwing stones into the forbidden areas...
...when they first introduced gas in large-scale modern combat, when the stunned British and French Colonial troops choked, fell and fled as clouds of chlorine boiled into their trenches. But the Germans did not or could not follow up their first quick triumph. Every military man worth his salt knows that all such talk is only high theory, that poison gas is the most fearful horror of war, that it will be the weapon of last resort, when all other known military means have failed to force a decision. Masks on Frontiers. The outlook for civilians, as usual...