Word: rippings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Kelly Field, San Antonio, Corporal C. Eugene Conrad entered an airplane piloted by Lieut. Leland S. Andrews, was lifted to a height of 21,500 feet (almost four miles). His fingers so numb with cold that his hands had to be placed on the rip cord of his parachute, Corporal Conrad stepped into space. Eight seconds after he stepped, he pulled the rip cord. Twenty-four minutes and 52 seconds later he landed in an alley in the exclusive residential section of San Antonio, was surrounded by "1,000 cheering school children." Corporal Conrad had made a world...
Percy Hammond: "Well-behaved rip-snorter...
...talking like that. If Germany is capable of paying she ought to pay?to pay to the limit of her ability. There can be no doubt regarding that on any principle of civilized jurisprudence But are we going to use bayonets to rip open purses or prod haystacks with sabres to find gold? There are better means of finding out than that...
During his campaign he spoke in shirt sleeves and suspenders. When he got into action, with one rip, he tore off his collar and tie and threw them on the ground. "Don't get nervous,' he would shout, "I will remove nothing else whatsoever...
After two weeks struggle against the oppression of the capitalist authorities of an acquisitive Society, it is possible to publish the second brief installment of a journal which bids fair to rip the stagnant weeds of conservatism from the face of humanity. For obvious reasons the author still prefers to remain anonymous...