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...Dempsey, the late James J. Corbett and other pugilists have tried their hand at steer-knocking in the Chicago stockyards. The knocker wields a 3-lb. hammer, swings it down on the steer's skull, just above and between the eyes. The object is not to kill but to stun the animal to facilitate shackling for slaughter. It is a feat of skill rather than of strength. Neither Dempsey nor Corbett could match the practiced steer-knocker's formula of one knock per steer...
...talking sign-carrier is a five-year-old bomber which boasts the largest wing- area in the U. S. Its new generators can produce enough current to light 100 small homes. Its loudspeaker is 1.600,000 times as loud as the human voice. Its reverberations can kill butterflies, stun birds. Its five operators and pilots converse inside the cabin only by telegraph...
...speech to the local townspeople, saying that he would not permit his men to trade with Quantico merchants until every Quantico bootlegger was put out of business. He addressed his men as follows: "You birds took an oath ... to defend the Constitution. Don't let the news stun you, but the Prohibition law is part...
...example of Critic Orage's own criticism (of a passage by Paradoxologist Gilbert Keith Chesterton): "Read one after the other in the ordinary way, they [the paradoxes] stun the mind like a series of shocks; no meaning can survive them. And considered sentence by sentence they scarcely repay the trouble...
Calling out his entire command, planting one foot on a barracks porch railing, scowling his world-famed scowl, the General made a speech. "You birds," he said,"took an oath some time ago to defend the Constitution. Don't let the news stun you, but the Prohibition law is part...