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Word: tore (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Federal District Judge James McPherson Proctor upheld the A. M. A.'s demurrer and tore up the indictment, which he called "a highly colored, argumentative discourse . . . abounding in uncertain statements." Thurman Arnold's boss, Attorney General Murphy, immediately announced that he would continue the fight "on different issues," in the Circuit and Supreme Courts. Warned the Department of Justice: "The Government's prosecution policy toward boycotts in the medical profession is unchanged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A.M.A. v. Arnold | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

...lately made strawberries and peppers not merely more edible but more visual, has shocked even jaded critics into recognizing the richness, delicacy and care of his painting. As untidy in his life as he is tidy in his painting, stocky, mocking, hard-working Artist Grosser last week fidgeted, tore up match boxes, explained his preference of subject matter with classic concision: "Humans wiggle; vegetables just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Heroic Vegetables | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

...Clarkesville, Ga. Police Chief Segers held up a bank, seized $330, tore through the business district in a city truck scattering the currency. Said Sheriff Frank Wofford who arrested him: "Quite evidently something has happened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 12, 1939 | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

...Washington express, full of people who had gone to Canada to see the King and Queen of England, shot down the track. Burrell Wilhelm's cab swung out into the express train's path. It bounced off the locomotive, cut through the side of a day coach, tore open the front of one sleeping car and stove in the roof of another. A conductor on the express was killed. At least 39 passengers were hurt. Burrell Wilhelm was unscathed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Wreckage | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...year-old village lass and kept her with him three days, 5) robbed a filling station, 6) eluded posses in half a dozen counties, 7) robbed a second filling station, 8) tried to rob a third, walked into policemen's arms, walked out again, leaped on a horse, tore hell-roaring for home, tired by his six-day spree. Pa Booker yanked him from his mount, upturned him, soundly paddy-whacked him. Pa then took Aubrey into town, handed him over to the police, explained : "All he needed was a good whuppin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 29, 1939 | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

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