Word: toring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...both students and faculty alike. Besides the dancing and refreshments to add to the festive spirit of the occasion, each Radio Rough House has been highlighted by a show presented by the members of the staff for the student body. This time, the original "Slide Rule Symphony," which practically "tore down the house" when it was first presented last year and has never failed to leave its audience in other than an hysteric frame of mind, is expected to repeat its past performances. Dr. Chaffee will conduct in his usual "electronic" manner, and various staff members will reveal their aesthetic...
...shot him some from my ball turret. Then Friday let him have it as he came through the other side. It just tore his tail off as though a big fist had twisted it. One guy baled out and we saw his chute open...
With the speed of enlightenment, Mr. Jayne emerged from the subway, tore into the Metropolitan Museum of which he is vice director (he is also an archeologist and a promotion man), and laid the idea before Director Francis H. Taylor. Director Taylor took fire. He called up the New York Subways Advertising Co. They were even more excited. The Great Art series, they said, would complete the company's subway editorial policy. They offered to donate the car-card space, pay half the cost of the plates...
...wild storm lashed across Italy, driving before it torrents of blinding rain. Winds of gale force tore up trees, whipped dirt roads and open fields into bogs and mud-wallows. Through it all, soldiers fought, toe to toe, steel to steel...
...capture of Kwajalein tore open the Jap's far-flung outer defense, already punctured at the Gilberts and ruptured in the south. Allied forces pressed against Japan's inner ocean frontier. Now, with the initiative completely in their hands, Allied strategists had to decide: What next...