Word: tearing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...textile strike which for 12 weeks had been enlivening the annals of New Jersey with accounts of strikers dispersed with clubs, tear bombs, riot acts and jail sentences, spent its 13th week in a futile research for a peace settlement...
...Several instances of the violence of the police, which were entirely unprovoked by the workers were the throwing of tear gas bombs, and the attack on the pickets and the newspaper reporters, when the latter had come to snap the mounted police on their ridiculous steeds...
...that Judge English had committed any crime. It is more serious, said he, to impeach a man than to convict of crime. Without substantial proof of crime, there can be no impeachment. He pleaded with the House to remember "the wild pulsations of a father's heart," not to "tear the ermine from this, old father," to remember that...
...long. Knowledge is power, but the old-style encyclopedias that contain it are so heavy that only a powerful arm can lift them. Words burn like stars, great thoughts outlast granite mountains, but the books in which words and thoughts, are written will weary a man's hand and tear his pocket. "Condense what you write," this age has said; "compress it, synchronize it, cut it down." For borne time such reflections as these have animated the mind of Rear Admiral Bradley Allen Fiske, U. S. N., retired. Recently they have had fruit in an invention which Admiral Fiske last...
...schoolboy knows that we can tear down even a great city like Chicago in one short year through discrimination in freight rates. Give me control of freight rates and I will have the bats flying through any manufacturing establishment in America in less than one short year. All we ask in the West is what is guaranteed under the Constitution, the same rights and the same privileges that this Government is giving to the states east of Chicago. That is all we are fighting...