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Word: tear (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Soon after the signing of the Armistice the temporary wooden structure, too good to tear down, and yet not particularly beautifying to its surroundings, was partitioned, and one half remained as a cafeteria and the other housed the Bursar's office. The former Bursar's office building, occupying the spot on which Lehman Hall now stands, had burned down and the officers of the exchequer were officeless...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Delta Building With Long and Varied History Crumbles Under Hand of Wrecker--Once Restaurant of Radio School | 5/12/1927 | See Source »

...brushing a tear from his eye-lids he turned to him and softly said...

Author: By R. T. S., | Title: THE CRIME | 4/16/1927 | See Source »

...time for the annual egg-rolling on the White House lawn. Whether pent-up youth spends his father's substance on gilded night clubs or goes North "where hill is heaped on hill, the CRIMSON wishes him the top of the season--nor does it fail to drop a tear for the divisional-ridden senior sophister...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE WIND OF SPRINGTIME | 4/16/1927 | See Source »

Today, for the first time this spring, the spiked shoes of the Crimson track men will tear up the cinders of Soldiers Field. Having started its winter season a very uncertain quantity the squad will start the outdoor grind bolstered up by the memory of a Triangular meet victory against Dartmouth and Cornell for the third consecutive year, and with the Indoor Intercollegiate title in its possession...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPIKES TO FLASH ON CINDERS TODAY | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

...victims, draining out blood. Therefore, the corpse of a wampir (vampire) remains always fresh and rosy in the grave, nourished by the blood sucked by the vampire ghost at night. Effective means of exterminating vampires are: to drive a stake through the blood-nourished corpse; cut off the head; tear out the entrails. So say the wise sages of the Balkans, and so simple peasants believe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Dracula | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

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