Word: tears
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thoma conducted a musical test in the zoo to determine which chimpanzee was the most impressionable. "When the animals' curiosity toward the instruments." he reported, "had abated somewhat-they tried to tear the instruments away from us and play on them themselves-I discovered, to my surprise, that a soulful modern tango made a greater impression than an equally modern but turbulent foxtrot." Most fascinated by the music was a 7-year-old male named Peter. Dr. Thoma therefore went to work on Peter. The psychologist succeeded in fixing Peter's attention on a shiny metal knob, which...
Night before Southern California's football team beat theirs, 14-to-7, 300 exuberant Stanford youths smashed the doors of a theatre, did $300 damage inside, were prevented by police with tear gas from breaking into Roble Hall, girls' dormitory, to climax their annual "pajamarino riot...
...Klinko had abruptly shifted Memorial's popular journalism instructor, sandy-haired 29-year-old Michael Graban, to a grade school. Up sped a squadron of police, ordered the strikers to disperse. When they refused, the police, hardened by many a riot in nearby steelmaking Youngstown, tossed two tear gas bombs into their midst, drove them coughing and sneezing down the street...
From time to time, the Gehrig string has come close to breaking. He has appeared on innumerable occasions while suffering from colds, headaches, broken fingers and minor ailments, always without noticeable detriment to his play. Practically immune to the normal wear and tear of big-league baseball, Gehrig has only once been dangerously hurt. This was when a pitched ball knocked him unconscious in 1934. But he was in the lineup the next day, hit three triples in five innings. Closest call of all came when Gehrig was laid up with acute lumbago. To save his record, Manager Joe McCarthy...
...down the land Chairman Hamilton thereupon proceeded to tear into the New Deal with both fists. He assailed "a personal government that has appropriated to itself more of other people's money than any other Administration in American history." He accused the New Deal of favoring big corporations at the expense of small business. He warned of the "makings of a dictatorship." He accused New Dealers of aiming to replace the Constitution with "some other mechanism" or simply with "the vague principles and aspirations of Franklin Roosevelt." "This is a campaign," trumpeted he, "to determine whether the American Government...