Word: toring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Suddenly two figures leaped up before him in the middle of the road. One held a sign: STOP! U. S. CUSTOMS OFFICERS. Virkula braked his car but had not stopped before a volley of shot tore through the rear windows. The car plunged into a ditch. Virkula was dead, a slug in his neck...
...victory over the Elis, the first Harvard triumph since 1922. The work of Captain A. E. French '29 and David Guarnaccia '29, all season the backbone of the Horween offense, was the outstanding feature of the game. But their brilliance was made possible by a marvellous line which tore the Blue to shreds and payed the way for Harvard's return to football prestige...
...Minister Argetoianu remained behind his desk while the piebald lepers shouted maledictions at the government, protested at the food and living conditions in Rumania's state lazaretto at Largeana, from which they had escaped. Gingerly, Rumanian gendarmes captured the gesticulating lepers. In a nearby pharmacy terrified government clerks tore off their clothes, gargled. scrubbed themselves with disinfectants. A moment later still other government clerks rushed in, shouting for chloride, plucking at their garments. A third leper had appeared at the Ministry of Health equally incensed at the food served in Rumania's lazaretto...
...Angeles ever had was when, last September, as the ship sailed low over Layton, N. J., a man ran out with a shotgun and fired a charge up into the big silvery bag. He accompanied his shot with dancing, gesticulations and lilliputian shouts. The lead pellets, though buckshot, tore only small holes in the ship's fabric. But they might have struck machinery, caused disaster. Had the Los Angeles been inflated with inflammable hydrogen instead of inert helium, she might have blown up. And anyway, it is not proper to shoot at the U. S. Navy...
...Brown University last week the annual necktie parade of freshmen ended with eight men in jail, 21 injured, two shot. Yale freshmen set fire to the august Yale fence, broke campus lights, tore down a locked gate which barred exit to the street, yanked trolleys from poles, heckled policemen. Iowa University students shied eggs at the home of Paul E. Belting, director of athletics, whom they held responsible for their removal from...