Word: tore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York and under their direction workmen began to rip up the completed houses, dig cellars, add new wings, sunrooms, dining alcoves, fireplaces, porches. Thereafter two sectors of men labored in Reedsville. Sector I set up the ready-cut houses as they arrived, according to original specifications. Sector II tore apart the houses erected by Sector I, rebuilt them according to new plans...
Madam Secretary Perkins called in the architects, demanded an immediate change. The bedeviled architects protested. Madam Secretary insisted. Moving day for the Department was postponed. Carpenters tore down the second door and masons replaced it with a brick wall two feet thick to protect the Secretary's privacy. Hastily a corner of the Solicitor's office was hedged off for a second bathroom for Mr. Wyzanski's private...
...Composer Franz Schubert never completed his famed Symphony in B Minor. Historically, he wrote it in 1822, two years before he became music teacher to Caroline Countess Esterhazy, with whom he may have been in love. According to this picture, Schubert (Hans Jaray) actually finished the symphony, tore up the end of it out of chagrin at seeing Pupil Caroline (Marta Eggerth) married off to a Hungarian nobleman...
...trail there was nothing to do but pull ashore. In a rude Chinese peasant hut Missionary Doctor George Totell of Chicago performed the hasty, almost simultaneous deliveries-from Mrs. Graham a daughter, then from Mrs. Wagner a son. Piling back aboard the junks, the 36 who had become 38, tore on to safety, arrived splashed and wind-bitten at Changsha where Dr. Totell announced that both mothers and their infants were in the pink of health...
Newspapers throughout the U. S. interpreted the Court's decision as a victory for George, a yardman for the Southern Railroad when in 1903 its crack mail train tore down the side of White Oak Mountain, plunged off a curving trestle near Danville, Va. (see cut). George claimed that he helped pry nine bodies out of the wreckage, then went home inspired to tell the tragedy in verse. In a Federal District court he won his fight for royalties.* But when Victor appealed, the decision was reversed and his claim dismissed as fraudulent (TIME...