Word: tear
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this purpose. Both destruction and construction are secured by state intervention. Radicalism plumes its conception of itself with the declaration that it isn't essentially revolutionary, but merely "bound to go to the roots of everything." It not only goes to the roots, as Radicalism does, but it would tear up by the roots any tree in sight, regardless of the fruit it bears, and merely because it is a tree in existence. If it does attempt to plant another, it starts with a new and untried seed, for it has destroyed the seed of the old trees...
...strong-arm squad of Boston's best brand-new policeman arrived two hours before the game to subdue the eager mob that threatened (according to the advance press notices) to tear down the Pavilion. After being thoroughly searched, both of the spectators that had come to see the great tussle were allowed to enter and claim their seats under a heavy and constant guard...
...role. The strangeness of his new acting has unbalanced him; for in the torrent, tempest, and, as we may whirlwind of his passion, he has forgot the temperance which may give it smoothness (Oh, it offends us to the soul to hear the robustious, periwig-pated Lampy tear a passion to latters, to very rags...
People dissatisfied with the government of the United States are of two distinct classes. Besides the man who wants to introduce an entirely new system of government, there is His Honor, the Average Citizen who while sitting vigorously on the exponents of revolution, will tear Congress to pieces as one of his great diversions; will proceed to condemn government attempts at business, and then finish off with a few choice words on the speed of Supreme Court deliberations. The justice of these criticisms is of course doubtful. There will always be grounds for just criticism as long as politicians...
...pounds to be used to erect "a fair and goodly house of brick." The province was poor in those days, and this was considered a magnificent sum. The building is indeed "a fair and goodly house." Its substantial timbers and brick have stood 200 years of wear and tear...