Word: shuts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Siege raised. The far city of Sianfu, capital of Shensi province, besieged by an itinerant mercenary army for some months (TIME, Oct. 18 et ante) allegedly compromised with its besiegers last week, and as a result the 31 foreign missionaries shut up there since mid-April were able to depart last week. All left the city save the Rev. C. J. Jensen and his wife, and a number of Roman Catholic missionaries, who announced their intention of remaining indefinitely...
...Shut up and get out of here quick!" shrilled the bandit leader...
...pans, kettles, pails, until the family of the absent "scab" or "blackleg" promised to do their utmost to dissuade him from work. Once the worker returned home, usually besmeared with mud balls and rotten fruit, the tinpanners not only resumed their din but nailed down the windows and tied shut the doors of "blackleg houses...
...wrinkle that promised to eliminate a tremendous percentage of the danger-and fear-of aviation. Pilot R. Carl Oelze of the Naval Reserve had the temerity to ascend in his plane to 2,500 ft., jerk the strings of a monster parachute folded in the fuselage behind the cockpit, shut off his motor and let the plane plunge toward the ground like a plummet. Anxious watchers saw a white mushroom suddenly billow above the dropping craft. With a jerk, the plane's fall was retarded to a comparatively gradual downward float, about 38 ft. per second. At first there...
...Shut up," growled a sour voice from the next cell...