Word: tore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Restless spectators moved toward the exits and Harvard rooters began celebrating a 7-to-0 victory over Dartmouth as the game drew into its final two minutes. Then a Dartmouth substitute halfback named Bill Clark ripped through tackle, tore 56 yd. to a touchdown. Another substitute, Don Hagerman, coolly kicked the extra point, and Dartmouth squeaked back into the season's undefeated list...
...Eccolo, e matto, poveretto," the poor fellow is gone mad, exclaimed the Abbot at the monastery at Samos, while Byron raged with fever, allowing no one in his cell, breaking up the last shred of furnishing, beating Bruno, his unfledged physician, over the head. Bruno tore his hair, gnashed his teeth, wept because he had no power to use his poor skill on his master; the monks trembled and prayed. News of action came. Byron recovered overnight, set forth with miraculous energy; "I believed myself on a fool's errand from the first," he wrote, but he endured everything...
...Hickenlooper (she was the daughter of a San Antonio army officer). She felt it even more in the years when she was making her career and Conductor Leopold Stokowski. to whom she was married for twelve years, was making his. Eight years ago Mine Samaroff fell over a trunk, tore a ligament in her right arm, had to five up concert work. She became critic of the New York Evening Post only to be criticized for constantly presenting the musician's point of view. She took to teaching and her most talented pupils had trouble finding audiences. Cornelius Bliss...
...Cameraman Joseph Gibson endeavored to cover both the rooftop snipers and the soldiers blazing away below. Pitching his cinecamera on a hotel roof he started to grind. Soon Cameraman Gibson was out of action with four bullets through his legs. Friends bandaged him but soldiers burst in and tore the bandages off. "Those shots never came from our guns!" they announced after inspecting the wounds. "It was the Communists...
...Hatter-Hawks; Haller's pupil, Emerson Mehlhose of Wyandotte, Mich., Warren Eaton, Norwich, N. Y. After feeling their way up & down the Ridge for a couple of days, the pilots went out for records. Mehlhose, in a Hawk, took off from Rockfish Gap in a wind that nearly tore his wings off, soared up the Shenandoah Valley 71 mi. for a new U. S. distance record. (Old record: 66.7 mi., Martin Schempp, from Elmira.) Dick du Pont set out next day to go Mehlhose one better. Also starting from Rockfish Gap, he passed Mehlhose's landing place, kept...