Word: raze
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nanking. Japanese contempt for noncombatant lives and humanitarian institutions, such as hospitals, was the outstanding feature of the bombing raids of the last weekend. Ninety-five Japanese planes made deliberate attempts in two successive raids to raze the 500-bed Central Rockefeller Hospital, although the Japanese claim this was occupied by the military...
...Saturday. The disturbances in London which always mark Boat Race evening were correspondingly more jolly. Three record-breaking trials had put Oxford undergraduates in fine fettle before the race was rowed. To celebrate, they rioted so jubilantly in the theatres that performances were stopped, tried as usual to raze the statue of Eros in Piccadilly Circus...
Wreckers began to raze the house at No. 50 Wimpole St., London, where Robert Browning courted Elizabeth Barrett...
...such as the world has never seen before. We need new cars, new houses, new clothes, new shoes, new radios with television, new air-conditioning in dwellings and work places. We need new foods, machinery, comforts and culture. We need to clean up and paint up. We need to raze thousands of antiquated factories and houses-rebuild, modernize...
...provide a more dignified approach to Lowell House, the University will raze during the coming summer the two houses which it owns on Holyoke Place known as 7 Holyoke Place and 68 Mt. auburn Street, it was announced yesterday...