Word: rippingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rosovsky's hopes for reforms that will make undergraduate education at Harvard so good "that people will rip the door down to get it," as he has put it, may be even more ambitious than he suggests in his letter...
Rosovsky also said, "I'd like to feel that we are giving so good an undergraduate education that people would rip the doors down...
Many a small-boat sailor prides himself on knowing what a No. 3 Rip-pingille stove is from the reading of this novel. A band of literary aficionados accounts some of Childers' prose as the finest ever written in English on the experience of sailing. First published in 1903, The Riddle of the Sands caused a sensation by speaking of a plausible German invasion of England. It has been reprinted enough to become a minor classic. Generations of readers have leaned back joyfully into the author's affectionate knowledge of the sea as they follow the adventures...
Frank Upham, the lawyer who handled the case for the state, said yesterday, "Brigham's tried to rip off the customer by claiming that it was really a little guy" but added that Bic's "got screwed" because other stores in the Harvard Square area do exactly the same thing...
...member of the audience noted that this technique makes for good television. O'Connor agreed, but called these programs "rip-offs...