Word: slew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Judge Kniazev. He slew his stenographer...
...Soviet Judge Kniazev slew his stenographer. He liked her, but his affections were not reciprocated. He was put on trial...
Nearly 18 years have rolled by since a certain June night in 1906 when Harry K. Thaw slew Stanford White, famed architect of his time, at Madison Square Garden, Manhattan. In the months that followed, Thaw fought hard to escape the electric chair. His lawyers saved him by proving him insane and the Thaw fortune was said to have been diminished by a good round million dollars. In Philadelphia, during the past week, Harry Thaw began a new and expensive fight-a fight to be proven sane and so regain liberty...
...provided for by using two motors, one behind the other, placed on top of the wing, each driving its own propeller. In an ordinary twin engine airplane, with the engines placed one on each side of the centre, if one motor fails there is a dangerous tendency to slew the machine 'round. With the motors in tandem, the thrust of the propellers is always at the centre of the plane; and with one motor completely out of commission, the aviator can keep on going, even though at a slower speed. The engines are carefully housed to prevent freezing...
...absurd story about the one-dollar greenback, what a field they would offer for Samson and his jawbone of an ass! In the Bible it is recorded (Judges XV, 15) that Samson "found a new jawbone of an ass and put forth his hand and took it and slew a thousand men therewith...