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Word: teared (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other taxes they will have to pay. Their idea: As a quasi-dictator Dr. Bruning must be harder on rich men than he would need to be as an out-and-out Mussolini. Acting on this idea the 1,400 rich men voted a resolution urging Dr. Bruning to tear off the mask, proclaim himself what he almost is: Dictator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Fighting for Fatherland | 6/15/1931 | See Source »

...Thendara 50 miles north of Utica. N. Y., State troopers had to board the train, quell Porter Smith by threatening to use tear gas bombs," the editorial adds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 8, 1931 | 6/8/1931 | See Source »

Porter Smith says no threat of the use of tear gas bombs was made at all to quell him by the State troopers, but that he volunteered to go with the troopers when they boarded the train...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 8, 1931 | 6/8/1931 | See Source »

...Conference failed, wheat men were conscious that the world's wheat elevators are bulging with last year's surplus and that out of the earth was already springing another monster crop, another incubus. Too discouraged to tear their hair, Chicago wheat pit traders estimated quietly last week that North America will close 1931 with a surplus of one billion bushels-beyond all comparison the all-time record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Wheat Meet | 6/1/1931 | See Source »

...Trahan's act (he was lately in The Second Little Show) consists in messing with a huge wad of chewing gum while he plays the piano and is mauled by Miss Eukona Cameron when she is not singing. Last week Miss Cameron did not tear off quite so many of Mr. Trahan's outer clothes as usual. But the chewing gum oozed and blobbered from Mr. Trahan's lips, was stuck under the piano, retrieved, chewed, stuck again, smeared on the piano keys, frantically stretched in all directions, finally gathered together for the supreme effort of mirth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Great Gobbet | 5/25/1931 | See Source »

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