Word: tearing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...House passed its non-partisan tax bill and sent it to the Senate?almost unanimously, almost without a change. So the bill went to the Senate where a half of that body (more or less, no one can yet say) were sharpening their claws to tear it to pieces, prepared to fight over every hair on its body, with the chances nearly equal whether it will emerge the same creature or quite another. But Senate leaders none the less expressed a hope that it would emerge before March...
Tucked away behind the mountains of Lombardy, the tiny Lago d'Iseo, famed retreat of Italian notables, appears to the eye of passing aviators like a single glistening twisted tear upon the scarred visage of a giant. Last week a salute of 21 battleship guns boomed across this diminutive strip of water. Tourists afloat in ornamental near-gondolas, all but toppled overboard in fright. Shading their eyes and looking about for a super-dreadnaught which was nowhere to be seen, they marveled...
While everyone waited for Mr. Darrow to tear the Court to tatters, U. S. Senator Irvine L. Lenroot of Wisconsin, affirmative speaker, broached the subject, in part as follows...
...year tax on "income." M. Painlevé dared not yield, because it was considered certain that the conservative Senate would kill any such measure even if it passed the Chamber. Still M. Blum insisted. He wanted a "capital levy" inserted "on principle," though the Senate should tear...
...next period, when Princeton was in danger, Dignan punted 71 yards. These two fabulous feats, plus the work of a line that never wavered, made it possible for big W. H. Edwards ("Peter Pan of Princeton") to climb down from the stands and lead a writhing battalion to tear down the goal posts for souvenirs. Score: Princeton 25, Yale...