Word: teare
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...take three weeks to build the thing, they use it for three hours, and we tear it down in three days...
They had to pour a new foundation, rip out and rebuild a chimney, install new floors and beams, and generally tear the place apart, outside and in. The group moved in October...
...started last spring when the proprieter, a Mrs. Murphy, decided she was too-old to care for the house herself. She put the building up for sale and it was bought by the University, which planned to tear it down and erect a more useful structure. The house was then in pretty had shape--so bad, in fact, that Harvard declared it unlivable...
...morning clothes, went to the Washington Heights Presbyterian Church to attend the funeral of Maurice C. Latta, executive clerk at the White House since the McKinley Administration. The President was fond of Maurice Latta, a dour but efficient man. As the brief service ended, Harry Truman brushed a tear from...
These deep-city innocents pay a lot too much for a piece of unreal estate in Connecticut-a pleasant-looking, rump-sprung old house which they are wild to patch up and are promptly advised to tear down. They get a lot of belated advice from their lawyer friend (Melvyn Douglas), and they go into a huddle with an architect (Reginald Denny) who is willing to design practically anything-at a price. Before their homing instinct comes to roost at last they have been put through the wringer by practically every type of swindler involved in, or parasitic upon...