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...Reader Gifford is right as a Ribstone pippin on the fact, may be a little off on the timing. Another story: lion & unicorn were torn down by Colonial soldiers after the British evacuated Boston March 17, 1776. To TIME's reporter, a backward look for discounting the ardor of his Revolutionary forbears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 2, 1946 | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

Dick went on hitting like crazy, belting cats over the eyes with his broomstick. It took 15 minutes, but finally, one by one, he got them back to their places. Two of the cubs were down; one was dead with a broken neck and the other was torn up and dying. The other two scuttled off into the chute. Dick got each big cat out in turn, and ended the act right. He was not hurt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANIMALS: Dick's Bankroll | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

Started originally with the backing of the CRIMSON, the station began operations December 2, 1940 on a limited scale in Shephard Hall, since torn down. Programs now originate from the basement of Dudley Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Network Celebrates Sixth Season in Radio | 11/30/1946 | See Source »

...Micmac Indian for "the place where branches are torn off the trees by bears gathering beech-nuts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: NOVA SCOTIA: Modern Moses | 11/25/1946 | See Source »

...Wisconsin) tried a desperate maneuver. Violating a court injunction, he threw about 800 pickets in massed formation in front of some of the plant's gates. The stage was set for violence. On four afternoons pickets and cops stood toe-to-toe and slugged it out. Clothes were torn off, nonstrikers' cars tipped over. About 5,000 people, many of them high-school kids, came out to the Milwaukee suburb and joined in the fray; many of them threw rocks, tomatoes, oranges and paint bombs at pickets, workers and cops alike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Violence at West Allis | 11/11/1946 | See Source »

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