Word: ring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...going to extirpate Marxism!" shouted Captain Göring amid applause from the conservative Pomeranian Landbund. "I am going to keep my fist on the neck of these creatures until they are finished. We are not only going to extirpate the pest but we are going to tear the word Marxism out of every book. In 50 years nobody in Germany is going to know what the word means...
Referring to past (not to present or possible future Nazi violence) Captain Göring said...
Experts think it is some kind of cribbage game. It consists of a smooth board, about nine inches square, set inside an intricately carved frame. On the inner surface 49 holes have been bored and around the center one there is a double ring resembling a child's drawing of a circular road...
Leverett House, secure in its wisdom, has no pretensions. The trenchant phrase "Leavitt and Peirce" has more of a dormitory ring than "Mather and McKinlock." In the effort to conceal its identity the House even renounced such an abortive distinction as the Kirkland tower. Definite, but not startling, is its situation on both sides of Mill Street, between Plympton and Bow, conveniently near to the Weeks foot bridge, and to the delights of the Business School Cafeteria. Perhaps the only truly unusual thing about the House is its much discussed, trapezoidally shaped, and subtly concealed dining hall, graced at House...
Irvin S. Cobb paid for his memorable appendectomy many times over with the book he wrote about it: Speaking of Operations. Ring Lardner discovered last spring that the tedium of a sickbed could be profitably relieved by writing a radio colyum for the New Yorker, datelined "No Visitors, N. Y." Last week U. S. readers of the London Evening Standard perceived how an anonymous staffwriter aided by square-faced David Low, peerless New Zealand-born caricaturist, had made amusing copy out of Britain's influenza epidemic. The writer was personified as "the celebrated journalist Mr. Terry," a character assumed...