Word: demolishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beat England's No. 2 dapper little Henry Wilfred ("Bunny") Austin, the U. S. had a fine chance to win the Davis Cup for the first time in eight years. In the other three matches, it was agreed that George Lott and Lester Stoefen could scarcely fail to demolish any doubles team England could put on the court; that Wood would probably beat Austin; and that Perry would certainly beat Shields. The draw scheduled both crucial singles matches for the first day of the series...
...knock each other out. Misinformed, newspaper headlines next day scream that unknown Burleigh 'Sullivan has thrashed the champion. To save Speed's reputation, Burleigh is persuaded by Speed's manager to abandon his beloved milk route, become a fighter himself so that Speed may eventually demolish him in public and vindicate his prowess...
...grounds of unnecessary expense. An almost speaking photograph shows "Papa" Joffre and Haig behind the lines at the Battle of the Somme, excitedly pointing out to Lloyd George, who stares at them skeptically, that as soon as the imminent break-through is made, their massed cavalry will charge and demolish the Germans. One of the many muddies Lloyd George reveals is that as late as 1915 the Allies were bidding up the price of T.N.T. in the U. S. market by competitive purchases. He throws fresh light on British foreign policy when he explains that the Balfour Declaration...
...opposite of that which the word "education," in the Lowellian sense, implies. It is added, moreover, that it may become necessary to abolish the reading periods if the work is not done from the assigned books. Delivered of these powerful arguments against the Bureau, Dean Hanford proceeds further to demolish it by remarking that the use of short cuts tends to persuade the students that "the important thing in college is to pass examinations," or "encourages a certain type of student to even more questionable methods of passing the examinations." Finally, he concludes, the publication of these epitomes is unfair...
...looked like a pig, drank himself into a toper's grave. Her second husband was a humorous, bumbling fraud who preached a little (Carry used to interrupt his sermons), occasionally printed a newspaper, claimed the "brightest legal mind in Kansas." When bibliomancy revealed to Carry that she must demolish by "hatchetation" the blind tigers of Medicine Lodge, Kiowa, Enterprise; when she was jailed for being a nuisance and refused to return home until she had destroyed the nation's supply of "hell broth," Preacher Nation divorced her. Carry, considering herself "just a bulldog at the feet of Jesus...