Word: demolish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week Princeton Municipal Improvement, a local corporation run by energetic Princeton alumni, prepared to demolish these eyesores, to make way for a new community centre which will effect a balance of beauty between town and gown. Evicted families have already been provided with newly-built homes...
...TRIAL OF MARY DUGAN-In which a chorus girl's brother is compelled to demolish her reputation in order to save her life (TIME...
Lewis turned the cavalry into tackles and ends, and massed his backs in a solid group behind the center. The backs bore the thrust of the head of the wedge, and the tackles and ends swept in to demolish the sides of the Quaker wedge. The play was stopped, Pennsylvania was stopped, and victory lighted on the Crimson banner again...
...region, far north in the Arctic. Wellknown Arctic explorers declare that it takes about 100 years or more for these huge masses to form in the glacier fields, and it is because these bergs are so solidly formed in rock-like strata that it is so difficult to demolish them. It takes the bergs about one year to drift down from Baffin Bay to the Northern area of the Banks. Their length at this time averages about five city blocks, while their height runs from 200 to 300 feet. It was calculated that there are usually some 100,000 tons...
...manufacturer. Our thought has always been that the automobile business is prosperous only when all the makers of good cars are busy." But Chevrolet motors, manufactured under the direction of a onetime Ford executive, William Knudsen, have been hitting near enough to the low-priced market for automobiles to demolish almost half the target aimed at by the Ford Motors Co. In 1924 Ford scored 2,083,545 sales to Chevrolet's 587,341. By 1926 that score was changed to read Ford, 1,810,000; Chevrolet, 1,234,850. This year in the first six months, it reads...