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...wreckings-followed by interment of the beasts-were a common protest against the internal-combustion engine. Some students at Florida Technological University held a trial to condemn a Chevrolet for poisoning the air; they tried to demolish it with a sledgehammer, but the car resisted so sturdily that the students finally shrugged and offered it to an art class for a sculpture project...
...thousand days have passed since Israeli jets and tanks swept out of a June sunrise to demolish Arab air power in five hours and Arab armies in six days. Since then, the Middle East balance has scarcely shifted, despite Arab threats of renewed war and big-power efforts toward peace. Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser's war of attrition, designed "to regain by force that which was taken by force," has been foiled by successful Israeli reprisals and pre-emptive strikes. The result is a war of stalemate-what Guerrilla Leader Yasser Arafat last week called...
After allowing an inspired Harvard squad to stay even with it during the first period of play at Ithaca, the Big Red exploded for six goals within 13 minutes of the next session, and went on to demolish the Crimson, 9-3. Now, with all of their serious challengers disposed of, the Ithacans can once again thumb their noses at the critics who claimed that goaltender Ken Dryden was the key to coach Ned Harkness's success...
...demolish existing housing until comparable relocation provisions are made...
...number of letters in which Einstein speaks of the influence of the experiment on the formulation of his theory: this influence is always described in such words as "negligible," "rather indirect" or "not decisive." Furthermore, toward the end of his life, Einstein appears to have become increasingly determined to demolish the myth. In an unpublished letter written only a year before his death, Einstein said: "I even do not remember if I knew of [the experiment] at all when I wrote my first paper on the subject...