Word: saws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...method of evangelizing he described in his quaint autobiography: "Whenever I saw a man committing a sin, I reproved him, and then a multitude would gather around me. I would then begin to speak to them from a text of the Scripture, and would continue to speak as long as there was anyone to hear. Then the policeman would lay hold upon me, and drag me off to the police office, and my wife would get me out, and I would begin to preach again as if nothing had happened. Altogether I was nine or ten times in prison...
...next to me. A big Indian thug who appeared to be a sort of officer seized her by the arm and ordered her out of the car. I drew my belt containing 2,000 pesos and offered it to him if he would let her alone. When the bandit saw all that money, his eyes glistened, he held out his hand, called me a gentleman and went on his way gloating. The girl fainted...
...terror-gripped onlookers watched airmen rush into the air with seven planes to warn Chamberlin. Flying beside him, they held out wheels to signal his trouble. For 50 minutes the Levines, horrified, watched the plane circle hopelessly about, followed by an ambulance ready to pick up the bodies. They saw Carisi climb over the edge, struggle vainly, hanging head down, to fix the buckled wheel. Pilot Chamberlin. wrapped the children in blankets to save the shock of a crash. Then he slowly swooped down, ten feet from the ground flattened into a pancake stall, 'tail downwards. A wing dragged...
...Wembley Stadium near London, King-Emperor George V and 90,000 rooters also saw a socker game last week. Eleven Welshmen from Cardiff defeated eleven Englishmen from Woolwich Arsenal (London), 1 to 0, thereby winning the championship of. Great Britain. No riots ensued, even though 250,000 people crowded around the stadium hoping...
Chauncey and Donaghy, getting on base by a pass and a single, scored two more runs for Harvard in the sixth. The eighth frame saw the Crimson point-total swelled to eight, when consecutive hits by Ullman, Donaghy, Barbee, and a fumble in the Amherst outfield netted two runs, and Burns walked, stole, and took advantage of Zarakov's single and Wilson's error to cross the plate...