Word: rend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That undergraduates are "uninformed and greatly confused" about international problems is the accusation made by the editors of the Daily Californian. The current debate over the complicated Neutrality Act would rend to emphasize this failing. To pierce this alleged fog of undergraduate confusion is the avowed purpose of the following paragraphs...
...forms dived in as one and glided into compelling formations. The one that excited most interest and speculation was the cartwheel, in which the fair ones split into groups of three. Two would tug at the legs of a third companion in what seemed to be an effort to rend the latter asunder. Then the beauties spelled out a shimmering "H" in the center of the pool...
Until war becomes inescapable, or the Dictators turn and rend each other, let democrats of good will learn "how not to behave in a crisis of representative government . . . remembering how much it is in the interest of every democracy that every other democracy be strong and prosperous enough to maintain its existing form of government. . . . Even sentimental manifestations of solidarity count...
...promised to rush onto French statute books a law modeled on the British law of libel, strictest in the world. "Roger Salengro would not have asked any other vengeance!" explained M. Blum, who seemed to think that unless he took such "vengeance" upon French newspaper proprietors the mob might rend them limb from limb. At latest reports the entire metallurgical industry of Lille was paralyzed by a stayin strike vaguely linked with Salengro, Socialism & Spain...
...second feature of the program, "Sutter's Gold", is a heart-rending drama in which Edward Arnold plays the hardy Swiss immigrant to California. He wrests an empire out of the soil only to see it go tumbling when gold is discovered. Lee Tracy, as Sutter's parasite, and Binnie Barnes, a lovely Russian gold-digger, are other players who are important in this picture which should rend somebody's heart but somehow failed to touch ours...