Word: demolishes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...piece both inside and out until it was willed to the city of Bridgeport, Conn, last year by the late Industrialist Archer C. Wheeler. Because the mansion stands on what is now valuable downtown real estate, Bridgeport's Socialist Mayor Jasper McLevy last August got court permission to demolish the house, build in its place a new twelve-story city hall and civic center...
...forth to prove that William Friedman himself wrote the plays (e.g., in attacking one favorite numerological theory, they show that WM. FRIEDMAN and FRANCIS BACON both equal 100). Through a meticulous study of Elizabethan printing methods, combined with a whole series of highly technical cryptological checks, they also demolish the theories of the late Elizabeth Gallup, who in the '20s and '30s attracted a large following among Baconians. So far as cryptology is concerned, conclude the Friedmans sternly, Shakespeare is still Shakespeare. "We suggest that those who wish to dispute the authorship of his plays should...
...opportunity for wild humor in the outcroppings Humphrey must negotiate in his scramble to the top-the office sweater girl; an addled old clerk who has sandbagged his office with 67 filing cabinets full of senselessly duplicated detritus dating from 1939: and a villainous colonel whose spit-and-demolish approach to bureaucracy reaches peaks of brassbound unreason. But Drohan shows no real talent for his chosen business, satire; instead, he insists on trying to make the reader take Humphrey's doubts and flounderings seriously. A Candide may get into frightful predicaments, but under the rules of the game...
Managers of both teams voiced confidence in their squads last night, Johnson said, "We will demolish those ink-stained wretches of the fourth estate." Adam Clymer '58 of the CRIMSON derided this view, and expressed doubt that the Council would show up for the game...
...Chicago Seminary is planning to demolish the Robie House shortly and to build a new dormitory for married students on the site. The Seminary has offered the House to the city of Chicago for removal to another area, but Wright has said that this would be as bad as demolition, since the building was designed as an integral part of the surrounding landscape...