Word: upon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ozarks last winter came Connie Franklin, a shell-shocked War veteran escaped from the Arkansas Hospital for Nervous Diseases. He worked as a farm hand, wooed 16-year-old Tillir Ruminer. One evening last March they set out along a lonely path to be married. Suddenly nine men fell upon them. Tillir the attackers raped. Franklin they emasculated, tossed to death on a flaming woodpile...
...This is not a law, it is an infamy," said Dr. Curtius in level, fervent tones. "It is an attack on the authority of the state. You would force us, Mein Herr," turning upon Dr. Hugenberg, "to carry on foreign policy as though we were the prisoners at a criminal trial. . . . We must pay no more reparations? We must reject the Young Plan? What positive proposition do you have to make for other political measures...
...legality of the Lyon Act, but big oilmen maintain that the courts will uphold the validity of the measure and that the law will reduce California's present production of 870,000 barrels a day by at least 200,000 barrels. Stabilization of oil production for 1930 depends largely upon the outcome of the Lyon...
...When I took my first bicycle tour in Germany, I noticed that the German wheelmen carried a whip in a receptacle attached to the handlebars. Upon inquiry, it was for dogs. I carried no whip, for l found a more excellent way. When chased by infuriated dogs, which happened three or four times every day, I waited till the monster got close. Then leaning over. I spit in his eye, becoming with practice uncannily accurate. The animal invariably retired. It wasn't the heat, it was the humidity...
...Lorain, Ohio, Priscilla Shivock, 3, was pounced upon and bitten by a goose in a farmyard, died of fright...