Word: toring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Women of Germany who, since the War, have been like ants hungering for livelihood, last week tore down the prejudices of the German Evangelical Church against women preachers. The General Synod, at Berlin, decided to permit women to be ordained, but with restrictions. They may function only so long as they remain unmarried. They may lead religious services for children and teach Bible classes of girls; may perform work akin to that of U. S. social workers-welfare work in prisons, almshouses, pesthouses and refuges for the aged. They may not officiate at marriages, funerals, baptisms, deaths. Clergywomen...
...Cazenovia Seminary smoked in furtive privacy. Last week, startled, they learned that Student Theodore Kensicki, 17-year-old aspirant to the ministry, was about to "squeal" on them. Eight of the smokers lured Student Kensicki with soft words to a lonely spot. While he kicked, lunged, writhed, they tore off his clothes, scrubbed his skin raw and. bleeding with a wire brush. Into his sorry scratches they then rubbed iodine. They left Student Kensicki screaming with pain, minus five teeth. Soon they left the seminary, suspended by the president's order...
Rear Admiral Julian L. Latimer, commanding the U. S. forces, announced that near Leon last week a plane piloted by Captain H. D. Campbell, winner of last year's Schiff Memorial Trophy,* was struck twelve times by bullets which tore away part of the tail. One bullet struck another marine plane. Soon Admiral Latimer ordered the U. S. planes to mount machine guns and use them when fired upon. Since the U. S. is not at war with Nicaragua this development was piquant...
Thomas W. Pelham, Vice President, Gillette Safety Razor Co.: "Waves leaped high, smote windows and doors on the upper decks, tore loose booms. The British White Star liner Majestic bucked like a colicky broncho. Said I upon disembarking at Manhattan: 'The safety razor business is good all over Europe, and I am bringing back an order for 50,000 razors for the Kaffirs of Africa. The Kaffirs sell them to the tribesmen of the interior. Apparently they have grown weary of shells and glass as shaving tools...
Over Greenwood, Miss., a long, streaming V of wild geese beat their way north from the Gulf of Mexico into a thunder storm. Flares and crashes tore up the smooth formation. Geese swooped for coverage. Twenty-six dropped, plumb, dead, onto the farm of Robert Townes...