Word: torning
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Since the Corporation had unanimously endorsed the erection of a University Church, though not subscribing to it, the Committee decided to go ahead with the money that has already been received. It is rumored that the old Fogg Museum as well as Appleton Chapel will be torn down to make room for the Memorial, but the architects, who are Coolidge, Abbott, Shepley, and Bullfinch of Boston, refused to divulge definitely the new chapel's location...
...every offense, for every act of violence, a legitimate reparation should be forthcoming when the dignity and the sovereignty of a nation have been outraged. It does not seem possible that any country of the world would have stood for the humiliation and the affront and torn down its flag to have it replaced by the banner of arbitration...
...Enright has often torn down the stands with a goodbye blessing in his heart, only to see them rise again the next fall after the track season, when a 220 yard straight-away is necessary. This time, how ever, he feels sure is final, because the stands have been pronounced unsafe as a fire hazard...
...nothing but good by airing all comment, both adverse and laudatory which may occur from time to time in regard to this painting. No harm can come to great things through the mouthings of little men and there is only benefit when an artificial mask of excellence is torn away by the competent critic...
Over Villa Maria last week pirouetted for a short space a cyclone. Railroad ties were torn from the ground. Houses crumpled, sagged...