Word: teared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brooklyn, N. Y. the will of the late Sumner H. Lark bequeathed $1 to his widow, saying: "I suppose she will tear it into pieces as she did one time with a $10 bill I gave her to buy food for the children...
...work. Today there remains only 15% of the vessel that fought the Barbary pirates, defeated the Guerrière in 1812, earned the name of "Old Ironsides" from the way her planking withstood shot. When the Navy prepared to junk her in 1830, Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote his "Ay, Tear Her Tattered Ensign Down," caused her to be commissioned a second time in 1833. Her third reconstruction came...
...Hanna Company's New Lafferty mine, where an encampment of 400 strikers, women and children, was established. The mine was rushed twice, successfully defended by company guards. Shortly thereafter, a mob of 2,000 stormed the jail. Seven more agitators were apprehended, twelve overcome by tear...
...Pennsylvania the situation was even more acute. On June 8, deputies, State police and Coal & Iron police tried to disperse 1,000 picketers at the Westland mine of Pittsburgh Coal Co. with tear gas. At the Ellsworth mine of Bethlehem Steel Corp., miners stormed a barricade with sticks and stones, were repelled by tear gas and machinegun fire...
Last week Tennessee refused to tear down its famed monument to prejudice. Before the State House of Representatives was a bill to abolish the law which forbids discussion of evolution in the public schools. Cried the bill's sponsor: "I'm getting tired of having people refer to Tennessee as the State with the monkey statute." Exclaimed another friend of evolution: "This law has done more to indict the intelligence of Tennessee than any bill ever passed." But the majority of Tennessee legislators were neither tired nor ashamed. They voted down the anti-evolution repealer...