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Word: toring (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Girl students complained that they tore their silk stockings on splintery old chairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Save Our Schools | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

...despite jungle fever, they completed repairs, and in July, when the Dangu rose to flood, they prepared to take off. With her four giant engines scaring up a bright cloud of fluttering parakeets, the patched Corsair lumbered majestically downstream. Before she rose, there was a disheartening rip and she tore her bottom out on a jagged rock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Corsair in Congo | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

...Montevideo, enthusiastic native thousands pressed through a police cordon to get a good look at Ajax's two smashed gun turrets, to mend which she must go home to Britain. They goggled at the gap where a German shell tore through the cabin of Commodore (now Rear Admiral and Sir) Henry Harwood, smashed his bathroom, wiped out his wardrobe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Conquering Heroes | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

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