Word: raze
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...building right in the center of the city. The jungle life of these catacombs demanded such a toll of blood, so many corpses were thrown naked upon the outer snow, that the authorities have put a high wooden fence around the entire area and plan next year to raze this whole city block. . . . Suddenly there materializes beside you a group of children, seven, ten, and twelve years old. They have gnomelike, filthy faces, childish eyes, shaggy hair, men's long coats, trousers pinned up or cut and ragged. They shuffle together, taking counsel, then swift as swallows make...
...from the Post, on the top of the Denver County Court House, has stood for the last 50 years a gilded iron statue of Justice, with traditional sword and scales. Last fortnight, when workmen started to raze the Courthouse to make room for a park, the Denver Post ran a picture of the statue being lowered to the ground, captioned "Justice expelled from her habitation of half a century...
...will leve the old roster to raze some...
...fight off some Spaniards sent after him by Governor Velasquez, Alvarado, left in charge at Mexico City, gets into trouble with the natives. When Cortes returns, Montezuma is slain by his own people who, hornet-mad, drive the conquistadors from their paradise. The following spring the vengeful conquistadors raze the city, build a Spanish town, with streets squared "and the church conspicuous." Spanish settlers follow with their goats, babies, greasy pots. Old Eagle Bernal sickens to remember how, for all the conquistadors' labor, they only succeeded in fouling a paradisaical nest. The Author. Born in Chicago in 1892, Archibald...
...French Rothschilds (FORTUNE, Feb., 1930), sought to forestall repetition of such riots this Tisha b'Ab by offering to buy the Wall from the Moslem owners. Fifty years ago he made the same attempt. Moslems were willing. But pious Jews blocked the deal by clamoring that he would raze certain semi-sacred stone shacks near the Wall and replace them with a park. Last week the Moslems objected. The sacred Wall was too useful a political argument to relinquish...