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Word: teare (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...student can't tear himself away from Cambridge for the whole weekend but would still like to get in some skiing the HOC has answer for him too. Day trips by chartered bus will go to the nearest area that offers god skiing conditions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOC Schedule Lists Skiing, Skating, Hiking for Winter | 12/7/1948 | See Source »

...Washington police riot squad got a new name (The Civil Disturbance Unit) and new equipment - 30-in. batons, tear-gas grenades, carbines, steel helmets and martian-like gas masks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Dec. 6, 1948 | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

...minutes the cops came-78 city, county and state policemen. They started shooting revolvers, shotguns, Tommy guns and tear-gas shells into Bad Boy's window. After they had shot in 20 gas shells, they ran across the street and up the stairs of the rooming house. Bad Boy turned his .22 around and shot himself through the roof of the mouth. He was dead when the cops broke down his door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The End of Bad Boy Collins | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

...Thought Behind It. In Los Angeles, Mrs. Solomon W. Laykin, suing for divorce, had a complaint (her husband denied it): she said that he liked to show off before friends by presenting her with a $1,000 check, which he would tear up after the guests had gone home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 1, 1948 | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

...this afternoon when you cheer the blend of fife and tuba that is "Wintergreen," look for a moment at the man with the Dewey button and the tear in his eye and the man with the Truman button and the tear in his eye. These men understand. They know whose absence it is that makes the heart grow heavier this autumn. And not all the brass in Bubduk can blow loud enough to make up the loss of John P. Wintergreen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Flavor Lasts | 10/30/1948 | See Source »

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