Word: tore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...straightaways, Rosemeyer roared up a lead of two-thirds of a lap before the race was one-third run. Headed only when he dropped out for tire changes on the 79th lap, Rosemeyer soon caught young Dick Seaman of England piloting a Mercedes. Then for ten laps Seaman tore like the wind scarcely 15 sec. behind Rosemeyer. Before the finish he stopped for a fuel lap, let Rosemeyer streak home for the $20,000 first prize. The winner averaged 82½ m.p.h., snail slow compared to the 229 m.p.h. he recently clocked on a ten-mile European stretch, but fast...
...erudite, 64-year-old Roman Catholic Archbishop, George William Cardinal Mundelein, who started life on Manhattan's lower East Side and early won renown as a youthful orator. Before 500 Catholic prelates and priests assembled for the quarterly diocesan conference at Quigley Preparatory Seminary, Cardinal Mundelein tore into the Nazi Government: "The fight is to take the [2,000,000 German] children away from us. ... Perhaps you will ask how it is that a nation of 60,000,000 people, intelligent people, will submit in fear and servitude to an alien, an Austrian paperhanger, and a poor...
...wing deicers were off, but this time there was an added reason for their removal-they have been causing trouble on the new Douglas DC-38. On one American Airliner last month the rubber boot split, on another a section of the wing's skin crystallized and tore away. These incidents were minor, but enough to cause a Bureau of Air Commerce request that all present deicers be removed from DC-38 and improved to meet the greater stresses imposed by this biggest of U. S. land transports...
...find but one of the mourners. Representative Samuel D. McReynolds of Chattanooga, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee-one of those prominently mentioned for Senator-as his traveling companion. When his train arrived in Washington, Governor Browning dashed through a crowd of importuning politicians, one of whom almost tore his coat off, and sped to the Wrhite House. There the President, in the midst of preparations for departure (see p. 15), kept him waiting two and a half hours. Afterwards Governor Browning refused flatly to tell what the President had said, but newshawks guessed: Senator Bachman had opposed...
...furor of revision after the opening. He made all casting offices take out licenses, rid the city of unscrupulous booking agents. In 1934 he requested that burlesque houses tear out their stage-to-audience runways, gave them six months to restore decency to their performances. The burlesque producers tore out the runways but that was all. Last week, after three patient years, Commissioner Moss made theatrical history when, with one fell swoop, he darkened 14 burlesque houses, threw 2,000 theatrical workers out of work, and at least temporarily ended what is professionally known as "louse opera" in the city...