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Word: teared (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were men. We went through teams, not around and over them. Look at the kids here now. Don't they look young and small? . . . Say, Ed, it's still a great game, though, isn't it? I'll always get a kick out of watching these youngsters tear their hearts out like we used to do. They'll come through all right...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 10/22/1938 | See Source »

...night last week in Calders, Wis., burglars set to work on the safe of Calders Elevator Co. When the safe's protective mechanism released a flood of tear gas they had to leave. Not discouraged, they marched down the street, broke into a firehouse, stole two gas masks, returned to the safe, finished the job ($400 cash, $2,800 nontransferable stock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Perseverance | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

Smokers who tear off the corner of a pack of cigarets to open it seldom damage the blue 6? U. S. revenue stamp, bearing a grumpy likeness of New York's canal-digging Governor DeWitt Clinton (1769-1828). When they throw the emptied package away, they provide an occupation for untold numbers of scavengers who hunt not only for cellophane and tinfoil wrappings but for untorn revenue stamps. These stamps are not canceled. They can be steamed off, used again. Federal authorities well know that there are crooked, tax-dodging cigaret manufacturers who pay ½? for every undamaged DeWitt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Stamp Soaking | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

...occur in persons anywhere between the ages of 20 and 50, causes swelling of joints, wasting of bones and muscles, destruction of cartilage sheathing the ends of the bones, and fusion of joint bones. The hypertrophic form, which usually occurs in older people as a result of wear & tear, is less severe, less painful. The ends of the bones grow thicker and their cartilage coverings slip off and work their way around joint cavities (joint mice), leaving the raw edges of the joint-bones to scrape together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Arthritis Treatment | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

...seven-ton, eight-wheeled Thunderbolt over the measured mile of glistening salt at an average speed of 345 m.p.h., 34 m.p.h. faster than man had ever traveled on earth. Last week, after a fortnight of unfavorable weather, Challenger Cobb had his inning. Sitting in the nose of his tear-shaped, front-and-rear-engined Railton† (only half the weight of Thunderbolt}, with his head accommodated in an aluminum cupola with a speak-easy window, Driver Cobb streaked over the measured mile in a little over ten seconds, averaged 350 m.p.h. (for a north and south run), became...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Speed Match | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

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