Word: tore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...since the War, Germans have had drilled into them that Britain and France have meted out "unequal treatment" to the Reich and that this is the Crime of the Century. It was in defiant efforts to force "equal treatment" from Democratic powers that the Nazis clamored loudest and ultimately tore up the Treaty of Versailles (TIME, Feb. 8). Last week Il Duce set the Italian press to clamoring that Britain and France have now denied "equality" to Italy, demanding that the Italian navy be given an equal share in any patrol of the Mediterranean. As these editorials were read beyond...
Before a battery of cameras in the office of Owner Horace Stoneham of the New York Giants one day last fortnight, Manager William Harold Terry tore up his fat contract which still had a year to run, signed a new one for five years upping his salary to a reported $40,000 a year, highest current in the major leagues. One day last week Manager Charles Dressen of the Cincinnati Reds quietly walked into the office of Owner Powel Crosley Jr., quietly walked out again without any contract at all. It was no coincidence that the Giants had just slipped...
...changing my mind." However, when the remaining kidney which had thus sent the Hon. Mitchell ("Mitch") Frederick Hepburn flying so suddenly south was cured, he rejoiced with gusto that he had never, even in his most discouraged hours, resigned as Premier of Ontario and with whoops of redoubled vigor tore back to Toronto...
...stank. Ontario, he claimed, had contracted for more power than she could use and at too high prices. It would cost the Province some $400,000,000 over a period of the next 40 years to pay what she owed under these contracts-so in effect "Mitch" simply tore them up by having his Parliament pass the Power Act of 1935 by which he declared the contracts "illegal, void and unenforceable...
...hands on, a band of marauders broke into the school and proceeded to thwack, whack, hack their way through each & every one of its dozen classrooms. They battered blackboards into slate piles and desks into kindling, doused gobs of ink on walls, disemboweled a piano, scuttled kitchen 'equipment, tore up writing paper, tore down wall clocks, scattered movable and immovable objects on the floor until thousands of dollar? of damage had been done and the building looked like a Hollywood set at the end of an Edward G. Robinson cinema. What typewriters they forgot to destroy they took with...