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Word: teared (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...welcoming Neville in, there is a distinct probability that Mr. Baldwin was nominating his successor. It is no secret that he yearns to retire, that he wrote out his resignation as Conservative Leader while watering at Aix-les-Bains last summer, that pious Mrs. Baldwin made him tear the resignation up, invoking DUTY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: No. 2 by No. 2 | 4/13/1931 | See Source »

...that the Corporation, Overseers, and Alumni should plan to tear down Appleton and replace it with a chapel of virtually the same size is a sad commentary on the juvenility of those august bodies. We have often heard the maxim that one always contemns the architecture of one's grandfather, and it seems unfortunate that Harvard should be so taken with the desire to spend money and to heap up new bricks as to lose sight of this truth. William Stix...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Childs Play | 3/20/1931 | See Source »

...police station the firm of Torres & Mutiz confessed that they took orders for several types of bomb: noise bombs, tear bombs, gas bombs, and large dynamite bombs for effective execution. Most important, they named as one of their customers Manuel Triana, Liberal leader of Matanzas, whom President Machado has long considered one of his best friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Bomb Week | 3/16/1931 | See Source »

Tough guys who tear my gown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Mar. 16, 1931 | 3/16/1931 | See Source »

...bitter political enemies, both of whom are trying to win political control of the city. As the last act closes, the victor is being congratulated by his opponent, and with a great prideful gesture he points to the national flags unfurled in his honor from every window. An irrepressible tear drops from his eye as his followers march to the ordered beat of machine gun fire over the dead bodies of the civil population. Unfortunately it is not yet known to which actor the role of victor has been assigned, for Mr. Capone, who possesses the only manuscript...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STRICTLY DISHONORABLE | 2/24/1931 | See Source »

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