Word: tore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three weeks after the struggle began Mayor I. O. Langum had to issue a municipal order that no one might disturb the combatants. Wiggling desperately, the snake tore the web again & again, but each torn strand clung to it and held it more tightly. Spinning with cold-blooded persistence, the spider lifted the snake higher & higher...
Splitting the foam-flecked blue waters of the Mediterranean the S. S. Rex, pride of Italy's rejuvenated merchant marine. last week completed her engine trials in triumph. One of the two biggest ships built since the War (51,000 tons), the Rex tore over her 600-mi. course at an average speed of 28 knots, became unofficially "the world's fastest liner."* At times her 125,,000 h. p. turbines drove her bulb-stemmed hull 29 knots. With her smaller sister the S. S. Conte di Savoia, she is Il Duce's supreme bid for traffic...
When "Jimmy" Doolittle, a stubby, sturdy pilot in a stubby, sturdy ship, tore around the course at the National Air Races in Cleveland last week at 296 m.p.h. he made a new world speed record for landplanes...
...party platform, he will vote to resubmit the 18th Amendment to the States. Legislative hobby: taxes & tariffs. He was one of the first House members to raise the cry: 'Balance the Budget!" As acting chairman, he sponsored a Sales Tax provision in the revenue bill. A rebellious House tore his measure to tatters. Instead of losing heart and sulking, he worked mightily to effect a compromise. In himself he dramatized the tax issue and stirred all factions of the House to rousing cheers when he declared: "I have burned every bridge behind me. No matter what the personal political...
During Mr. Gibson's speech Comrade Litvinov, his moon face red with anger, tore into smaller & smaller bits a printed copy of the resolution...