Word: demolish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rumors of a still greater change are in the air, to the effect that the Cooperative Society will soon demolish its present quarters, and replace them with a new and modern building. No information was available as to the exact date when this change will take place...
Tradition is a wonderful thing--but many more inspiring traditions than a seven o'clock eye-opener have passed into oblivion. It is no longer considered quite the thing to demolish Mr. Conant's impregnable iron door and freeze the bell full of water--chiefly because it is no longer necessary to do this in order to avoid Chapel. But if it ever was desirable or necessary to arise at seven o'clock, that time like the days of one-horse shays and tallow candles, has fled. Pity the dexterous but unfortunate bellringer forever doomed to face the world while...
...Charles Blount Jr. '18 writing from Lyon, France, to the Alumni Bulletin makes use of the familiar "reductio ad absurdum" argument to demolish the case of those who contend that no one should "deny to any young man the opportunities of a Harvard education." And he indulges in some caustic irony at the expense of those who, on the grounds of democracy and liberalism, would throw open the gates to every eager young...
Scaramouche has already been greeted as the finest French Revolution yet brought to the screen-and even if you are a little weary of seeing a strongly American band of sans-culottes demolish a pasteboard Paris, you should not miss Scaramouche, for it is quite the best thing Rex Ingram has done since The Four Horsemen. The story follows Sabatini's novel closely enough-the stroller-swordsman hero (Ramon Navarro) is dashingly effective-the scenes of the storming of the royal palace are incredibly exciting-the Danton of George Siegmann presents, for once, a hero rather than a ranter...