Word: shatter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ship moored near by jumped onto a wharf. Another tossed her anchor into her neighbor's rigging. Everything on the dock, including seven fire engines, disappeared. A mile away a householder saw every window in his home shatter at once, found a 28-lb. gold -bar (worth $27,700) on his veranda. An officer staggered, blackened and bleeding, into the Taj Mahal Hotel muttering, "the air-full of arms and legs and heads -horrible-horrible...
...because you, happy, cheerful, thoughtless, with the winning, innocent tactlessness of a child, shatter a belief which, I daresay, not one in 3,000 ever thought to question...
Princeton's Tigers helped shatter the Dartmouth myth last Saturday night, upsetting the Hanoverites 44 to 39 at Tigertown. But the quintet which represents Old Nassau this winter is no mean shakes on the hardwod floor, as Crimson fans will learn to their sorrow ere long. And the Indians tomahawked an in-and-out Columbia Lion 66 to 44 Monday evening, which shows they are out for blood--and the color is Crimson. IVY LEAGUE BASKETBALL STANDING OF THE TEAMS W L Pct. Pennsylvania 2 0 1.000 Princeton 1 0 1.000 Cornell 2 1 .657 Dartmouth 2 1 .667 Columbia...
...breath-taking stroke. No President of the U.S. since Abraham Lincoln had ever visited a battle theater. No President had ever left the U.S. in wartime. None had ever been to Africa. None had ever traveled in an airplane. Now came Franklin Roosevelt, 32nd President of the U.S., to shatter all four precedents at once...
Bomb bursts and gun cracks are not the only war noises that shatter or dull the mechanism of the human ear (TIME, Nov. 2). The racket and roar of heavy machinery is also a menace. To quell such clamor, some workers use plugs of cotton, rags, rubber, wax. These are not always sanitary, are sometimes dangerous...