Word: teare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...John Brown's raid resulted in a number of serious fights, and, although the authorities did not relax the customary discipline, cadets agitated by State feeling cared little for punishment or demerits received,. Seceding Southern States took with them their sons who, once loyal Unionists were soon to tear at the throats of their Northern Classmates. The names of Grant, Jackson, Stuart, and Lee will live long in the annals of war and of fame. But the "Lost Cause" was indeed lost and after 1865 life at West Point returned somewhat to normal...
...work." Someone in the crowd shouted: "Over our dead bodies, then!" A day shift man shouldered his way through the crowd toward the mill gate. The crowd surged to hold him back. It was then, says Sheriff Adkins, that he started discharging, not his bullet pistol, but his tear gas gun. He and Marion, N. C., were unfamiliar with this weapon, about the size and shape of a large flashlight. He got a lot of tear gas in his own face. The crowd recoiled. An old man reached the Sheriff and belabored him with a stick. While grappling this assailant...
...HERE'S TO DEAR OLD YALE, TEAR HER DOWN, TEAR HER DOWN was the caption once run under a drawing by one Robert Osborne in the Yale Record (funny monthly). The pic ture showed a grotesque jumble of destruction out of which soared tangled fingers of new structural steel. Further tearing down of Old Yale was announced at New Haven last week. Two dormitories will be erected across the street from Harkness Quadrangle; also, more buildings for the Law School, and a medical and pediatric laboratory. The cost: some $4,350,000. . . This year Yale will have a perfect...
...some years now since the Roving Reporter received his sheepskin from a New England college, shed a tear or two on the chapel steps and departed either to set the world on fire or discover that its principal ingredient was asbestos...
Sadly, and not so reminiscently, the Roving Reporter went to the chapel steps to shed another tear. There were no bars in college 10 years ago. --The Boston Herald...