Word: woke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...squawk from the government of Manchukuo. While thousands of Soviet troops have moved quietly into line along the Manchukuan border, railway officials at the Russian end of the Chinese Eastern Railway have been quietly detaining rolling stock of the C. E. R., rerouting them over Russian tracks. Manchukuo officials woke to the fact last week that the Soviet had "borrowed" 3,200 freight cars, 190 passenger cars, 83 locomotives. The system was paralyzed, for the C. E. R. is built on Russian broad gauge, all other Manchurian rolling stock is built to U. S. standard gauge...
...gentle with her, kissed her a few times, then went away. Sally was heartbroken, tried taking a hot bath in her nightgown and sitting beside an open window, hoping to get pneumonia and die. She did not die, but a truck hit her one day and when she woke up she wanted to live. . . . Years later she met Tom in a speakeasy. "Of course I remember you. Do you know my husband...
...strong drink and loose women figure. On the night of Oct. 30, according to last week's disclosures, no Tokyo police put on bullet-proof vests and stealthily surrounded an inn at Atami in which eleven Communist leaders were asleep. Ten were seized as they slumbered. The eleventh woke up, shot four policemen, wounded them sorely...
...table from Old Paul his well-brought-up grandchildren gravely discussed engines with the President's chauffeur. Everyone was given a pre-Christmas present. All the servants were told they could have the whole day Christmas off. Toward the end of the lunch President von Hindenburg dozed, woke up with a jerk...
...tore them asunder. Next hour the spider tried again; again the hands revolved, destroyed. The spider was still trying when the alarm sounded next morning. Friends & neighbors came to watch as day by day the hands grew fusty with gossamer. Each night C. C. Thompson wound the clock, slept, woke at its alarm. The spider spun .on day & night. Last week, when the spider had spun and the clock undone some 420 times, clock and spider were sent to the University of Akron's Professor Walter Charles Kraatz. The insect had now become the size of an ordinary house...