Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Another and more successful attempt has been made to destroy the Andre monument by dynamite...
Miss Dickinson is to cross the dramatic Rubicon next Monday evening; she will appear in New York as Hamlet, and is said to dread lest the withering criticism of the city will destroy the laurels she has won in the provinces...
...York Herald says: "That light and volatile individual, "The Professor," will invade the classic shades of the Hub and set his confreres in the neighboring university an example which they will do well to avoid if they do not wish to destroy the dignity of that respectable seat of learning...
There is some diversity of opinion at Yale as to the advantages of steam-heating in the college buildings. Since its introduction into some of the dormitories, enough time has elapsed to destroy all remembrance of former suffering and discomfort from cold rooms, in the minds of many occupants; and, consequently, complaints are beginning to be made of some minor discomforts and inconveniences arising from steam-heating. Complaint is made of the noise; and one Yale man writes: "They frequently leak all over the carpet, and they don't give the look of comfort to a room which a fire...
...forth nineteen causes of complaint against Thomas Vickers, any one of which, if established, was sufficient to show his unfitness for the rectorship. In alarm Vickers rushed into contemporaneous print, and accused students, alumni, directors, members of the faculty, and citizens, of conspiring to break down his reputation and destroy the university. Receiving an intimation that the beseigers were about to lay certain petitions before the directorate, asking for an investigation into the consul's management of affairs, he determined to be precedent, and himself demanded an investigation, appealing to the fair-minded men and women of the city...