Word: ripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time the department's physical set-up was more than adequate. Now, according to Arlie V. Bock, Henry K. Oliver Professor of Hygiene, the only feasible solution would be to rip down Stillman and construct a combination infirmary and health center. His proposed site is between Dunster and Holyoke on the ground now taken up by Cronin's, Arthur Parker's, Cahaly's, and a parking...
Whistler's Grandmother (by Robert Finch) is almost as bad as its title. A young saloonkeeper, whose singer fiancée craves a wholesome family background, hires a lovable old rip to pretend to be his grandmother. She soon turns the backroom-and the boys in it-into a God-Bless-Our-Home Victorian parlor and makes every one so happy that, when the truth comes out, they all vote to go on living...
Letter-writers to the Alumni Bulletin in the spring of 1946 were wroth indeed--48 columns wroth, in fact, with amounts of outrage, protest, and indignation thrown in. That spring, it seems, the University had decided to rip down the ancient, tradition-mellowed Dana-Palmer House and erect Lamont Library on its site...
...space ship moves at nearly the speed of light, its time slows down. It can sail like a cosmic ray for thousands of earth-years from star to star, but for its crew only weeks will pass. When they return to earth, however, they will all be Rip Van Winkles: their friends and families will long since have passed into ancient history...
Councillor Edward J. Sullivan claims he saw "boys crawling all over the trucks and some of them tried to rip out the radio...