Word: shatter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ball bounded off his chest, rolled crazily toward the end zone and, before the bewildered crowd got to its feet, rolled over the goal line with a Blue Devil atop it. From that moment on, Duke played diabolical ball. They intercepted passes, smothered ballcarriers, finally scored another touchdown to shatter Carolina's dreams of the Southern Conference championship and a Bowl-game bid. Duke 13, North Carolina...
...After so many lies and so many denials, German propaganda is left the last hope: That of splitting the forces which are going to shatter her march toward world domination. It is clear that German propaganda now has no more than two objectives. It wants to separate France from England. It wants to split the French among themselves...
Last week saw the great offensive of Europe's new war. It is the war of menace and mystery, of hysteria, panic, rumor, aimed at shattering an enemy's morale as big guns shatter a fort. Last week saw the biggest battle of the war-the battle of Danzig on the Vistula, where Nazi forces had been stalemated four months by the imperturbable resistance of its Polish defenders...
...unit that has made the biggest stops forward this year in Jaakko's hurdle contingent, which may well shatter Yale's barrier supremacy two weeks from today. Mase Fernald is an old hand and a good one, but not yet in very food condition. Sophomores Don Donahue and Roger Schafer, whose attendance at practice is sometimes sporadic, are not only white hopes for the future but plenty hot right now. And Junior Bill Laverack, who hasn't the speed of the others, possesses perhaps the most perfect form...
...other choice but to refuse to sanction or participate in war. . . . We affirm our faith that the mission of the church today is to witness with singleness of heart, at whatever cost, to the power of good to overcome evil, of love to conquer hatred, of the Cross to shatter the sword...