Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...East, barely nosed out the Elis three weeks ago, but Princeton was snowed under on Saturday by an avalanche of record Eli times and distances. It is impossible to compare he summaries of the Yale-Princeton and Harvard Dartmouth meets without seeing that the Crimson must outdo itself to destroy Yale's paper edge...
...hexagonal in shape, suspended from a central tower by cables. The inventor uses for the main theory of his work the principle that triangles and hexagons are the usual forms of natural objects, and, consequently, the most stable. He pointed out that the force of gravity tends to destroy a square and strengthen a triangle or hexagon...
This custom is an old and dignified one about which there is nothing ridiculous or affected. It is regrettable that false modesty or apathy should be allowed to destroy...
...press: "The Federal Trade Commission has uncovered the power trust's nationwide practices of buying reporters, editors and news agencies. "We believe that Congress, if it will, can find a way to stop these great interstate monopolies from using their huge financial resources, contributed by the people, to destroy the free press by means that range from secret bribery of newspaper employes to outright purchase of newspapers themselves." Said the New York Times: "The whole foundation of honest journalism is laid on the principle that newspaper ownership should have no interest save in publishing facts and making fair editorial...
...Emden sent a landing party ashore to destroy the wireless station of Port Refuge in the Keeling Islands. Up steamed the Australian cruiser Sydney, half again as large as the Emden. After a running fight which lasted ten hours the Emden was driven ashore, a blazing wreck...