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Word: tears (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mayhem is more serious in France than tax evasion. By evening the Corneuil house was surrounded by khaki-coated gendarmes with rifles, searchlights, tear bombs. All through the night they besieged it. Every time a policeman's blue cap appeared, the Widow Corneuil or one of her sons took a shot at it. Next morning one brave gendarme volunteered to make a last effort to persuade the Widow Corneuil to surrender. Again a shot. He twisted on his heel and dropped dead. The siege continued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Deaths (4) & Taxes ($6.40) | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

...dusk, the second evening, police attacked. Melinite charges shattered the door, tear bombs were tossed through the windows, sulfur bombs dropped down the chimney by a policeman who swung himself up to the eaves. Finally the Widow Corneuil & sons dashed for the stable, firing as they went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Deaths (4) & Taxes ($6.40) | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

There are those who mourned, when Harvard inaugurated the House plan some years ago, at the fact that unappreciative Freshmen would hence forth occupy the hallowed balls in the Yard. Some alumni dashed a tear from their eye as they realized that Seniors would have to spend their last year in college in some remote exile down by the river instead of within the whispering walls of Weld or Stoughton. It was sad at the time, perhaps, but no one really suffered by the new arrangement. Seniors discovered that the Eliot House grill could make...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A NEW HAVEN--FOR YOUNG ELI | 1/26/1938 | See Source »

...Curtis stock.* Ironically, with Graeme Lorimer's eyes turned toward Hollywood, a fugitive from the film colony. Merritt Hulburd, will fill his vacancy on the Post. Merritt Hulburd, Graeme Lorimer's classmate (1923) and fraternity brother (Psi U) at the University of Pennsylvania, persuaded Samuel Goldwyn to tear up his contract, which had over three years to run, so that he could return to the magazine he left six years ago. Two other associate editors taken on in 1937 are Stuart Rose, Ladies' Home Journal fiction editor who does not take office until February, and Joseph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Inheritors' Year | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

...collection. Moreover, if the two or three tables nearest the exam windows were reserved for those who want to read the booklets, it might be possible to locate an exam. The rest is up to the college, up to them to respect the pages of a book rather than tear them up to suit their wishes. With these complications removed, the exam collection would more nearly fulfill the purpose for which it was put there; to show distracted students how much they do not know...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXAM TROUBLES | 1/7/1938 | See Source »

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