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During the war years we saw the new state highway system of Mississippi, which had been protected by low load restrictions, torn to bits by unlimited Army & Navy vehicles. It was one of the sacrifices willingly paid by the people of that state in a period...
...after thirty-seven years of service to commuters between Boston and Cambridge, the Larz Anderson Bridge also goes its way. It hasn't been torn down of course, but it now suffers an even worse ignominity. It stands in the shadow of a new structure. The Eliot Bridge has thrust the sturdy old frame into the background; the burden has been lifted from its hunched back...
...Center's present office building at 38 Quincy Street will be torn down to make room for the projected General Education classroom building. Those Dudley residents who have to vacate will get rooms in the Houses if they want them...
...Thousand Reasons. Acheson argued in the White Paper that, short of a "colossal commitment of our armies," there was nothing the U.S. could have done to save China, that the destiny of that massive, torn country was out of U.S. hands. Certainly Chiang's government, with its one-party rule, its graft and its unpopularity, had a great deal to do with its own collapse; Mao Tse-tung's toughness and shrewdness had much to do with the Communists' triumph. But the pertinent fact for Americans was that their own State Department, by its acts...
Captain Bob Berke and Doug Kinney kept the Crimson strong in the distances, but a vacation injury to Bob Tolf may cost the team dearly. A torn ligament in his left knee may keep him out of action until mid-February...