Word: toring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this, his second year as baseball coach at Harvard, he had everything to lose and nothing to gain. In his first year at the Crimson helm he had inherited a generous sprinkling of veteran ball players and led them to a first-place tie in the E.I.L. June graduation tore that pennant-winning nine apart at the seams, and the outlook this spring was anything but promising...
...first siren wails since March tore the night air of Paris last week and citizens as they rushed to dugouts in their night clothes saw the whole sky streaked with tracer shells erupting like Roman candles...
...ladies dashed at Mrs. Roosevelt, in their enthusiasm tore a ribbon from...
...bang-up black-&-white man for that of mediocre painter. Four years ago, at the age of 41, white-haired, young-looking Adolf Dehn decided to take the plunge. Teutonically systematic, he began turning out one water color a day. His first tries were not too good; later he tore up two or three hundred of them. But he kept on, upped his output to two and even three a day, gave up lithographs altogether. Last year, on a Guggenheim Fellowship, Water-Colorist Dehn got himself a car and ranged Mexico and the Southwest, turning out water colors like...
Then, two laps from the finish, the pony express got steamed up. Off went Rice like a quarter-miler. While 14,000 spectators stood on their toes and yelled themselves hoarse-and Tutor Nurmi sank forlornly to a wooden bench in the infield-Rice tore around the Garden like a tornado, broke the tape 28 yards in front of Maki, 20 yards in front of onetime Record-Holder Don Lash, who had also whizzed past the Finn. Rice's time (13:52.3) not only broke the world's record he set six weeks ago, but was only...