Word: z
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...route San Pedro to Balboa, C. Z...
...pointless efforts of the injured to stand up; the queer, grunting noises; the steady, panting, groaning of a human being with pain creeping up on him as the shock wears off. It should portray the slack expression on the face of a man, drugged with shock, staring at the Z-twist in his broken leg, the insane crumpled effect of a child's body after its bones are crushed inward, a realistic portrait of an hysterical woman with her screaming mouth opening a hole in the bloody drip that fills her eyes and runs off her chin...
...Special Agents. In addition, there were to be special lectures on ballistics, first aid, criminal procedure, psychiatry, by such national figures as Major Julian S. Hatcher of the Army's Ordnance Department, Assistant Surgeon General Ralph C. Williams of the Public Health Service, onetime U. S. District Attorney George Z. Medalie and Dr. William A. White of St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington. The Bureau hoped that when the graduates of its new Police Training School went back home they would be so firmly stamped with the U. S. seal of approval that local bosses would think twice before detouring...
Last week Editor Ansley sent his "Z's" to the printer. True to his word, he had crammed a goodly amount of the world's knowledge into one fat volume of 5,000,000 words. To save space he had done away with pictures and paragraphing, abbreviated mountain to mt., county to co. Staff-written, the encyclopedia had required the efforts of some 200 writers. In an off-hand moment Columbia University's President Nicholas Murray Butler, finding the volume good, named it the Columbia Encyclopedia. The Columbia Press priced it at $17.50, promised delivery some time...
Only foreign Communist in Moscow who dared to come out into the open was ailing William Z. Foster, onetime Communist candidate for President of the U. S. Though bedded in a Moscow hospital, Comrade Foster contributed a piece to the newsorgan of the Comintern. He urged all U. S. well-wishers of the World Revolution of the World Proletariat to enter a new misleadingly named "Workers' Party" and try to mislead as many workers as possible into thinking it is not identical with the Communist Party...