Word: rip
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There is a broad-beaten route between Canton and Pittsburgh along which bootleggers, white slavers and "reindeers" (dope-peddlers) have plied their flourishing trades. But the same route extends to many another Ohio city. To quote a civic-proud Canton Chamberman of Commerce: "If something similar should happen to rip the lid off, say, Youngstown or Akron, a much worse stench than we have here would come...
...real cure for America's illness would appear to be automatically forthcoming. Although the old morality is rather a bore, the accessible sins are no less monotonous. In the absence of a rip-roaring wrong which can be whole-beartedly cultivated, the youthful rebels must seek some respectable course of conduct...
...This man who may remind you of a pompous schoolmaster is Hiram Johnson. He used to be a rip-roaring Progressive Republican. He still votes with them, but he seems to be an extinct volcano. The old gentleman there, with a kindly face-no, not that one; he is Frederick Gillett, who used to be Speaker of the House and has now retired to the dignified bosom of the Senate as a reward for his long and faithful labor in the Republican cause. The other one farther back is Senator Cummins, who used to be a Progressive Republican...
...with other workmen. The time saved was over 20%. Strength tests showed the welded joints to be 100% strong, as against a 65% to 70% average for riveted joints?that is, the welds were as strong as the girders they joined, often stronger under test stresses. Rivets shear or rip out their holes sooner than the girders break...
...respect only has the veteran vehicle been changed. In place of the fashionable figures of personified speed which adorn the radiator caps of modern automobiles, the new owner with a sense of the appropriate has chosen for his motif a large silver snail with a minature Rip Van Winkle astride his back...