Word: turning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...daybreak 500 "Wobblies" led by Adam Bell tramped toward the gates to the Columbine property. Deputy Sheriff Lou Beynon of Weld County met them and urged them to turn back. He pointed out that the 20 State Police under Mr. Scherf were unwilling but ready to repel trespassers with gunfire. "Come on, boys, let's go!" cried Adam Bell. The "boys" went?toward the Columbine gates...
...handful of State Police met the mob first with the butts of their rifles. They clubbed and pommeled, and were treated in turn to a shower of sticks, rocks, knife-stabs. One trooper had his eye gouged nearly out. None escaped injury. Mr. Scherf ordered a retreat to the Columbine gates, where he formed the troopers in a double...
...Farrar herself has taken turns in the cinema, won much praise for her Carmen, Maria Rosa, The Woman God Forgot, The Devil's Stone, The Turn of the Wheel, The Hell Cat, Shadows, The Stronger Vow, Joan the Woman, and The Riddle Woman...
Much has been said from time to time--particularly by literateurs with a philosophic turn of mind about the drama of history. And indeed, their contention that there is a divinity which shapes the end of history even as it does that of man, In other words that history moves like a drama toward an ultimate conclusion, seems at least to have a basis. Certainly it is not rare to find elements of the dramatic in the events of the past, particularly in studying those which have had, a long and unbroken succession...
...vast amount of capital has been expended on Russian industry by the government, it remains the most serious problem that the Soviet is facing. The basic reason for this is that, with its bureaucratic control, its restricted markets, and its general inefficiency, Russian industry is not able to turn out goods cheap enough to appeal to the peasantry, its logical customer...