Word: torning
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...very important, except as a symbol of the change that's come over this place, but wrecking crew are pulling down the tenements at 59 Plympton and 58 and 60 Mount Auburn Street. Once the most fashionable residences for "the boys," these rat-houses are being torn down by their owner, the Fly Club, as not being fit for service men or their wives to live...
...production on the Navy's top-notch Corsair fighter (designed by Vought-Sikorsky, farmed out to Brewster), he started building them in the antiquated Long Island City plant, even though part of the wall had to be torn out to get the first completed ship...
...fill part of the great gap war has torn in their merchandising, Sears announced a new venture: its own monthly book club. Sears is out for 100,000 members who will agree to take at least four books a year-at $1.66 each, plus postage. The books are to be selected by a Gallup poll of the club's own members-"a people's book club organized to provide books selected by the people for the people." The first pre-Gallup selection: Marcia Davenport's best-selling novel Valley of Decision. First premium (for joining): Lloyd Douglas...
...yellow and blue entrails spilling out like yeasty dough, lay atop the mound outside the hole. Twenty yards from this foxhole there was a little brown-skinned hand, blown there after it had pressed a grenade against the stomach. The glove encasing the hand was only slightly torn...
...Washington, varnishing-day guests saw oils, water colors and some drawings of subjects from a pre-Pearl Harbor defense plant (by Paul Sample) to Texas Artist Torn Lea's literal impressions during the Battle of the Solomons. Notable were a richly colored night scene by Chicagoan Aaron Bohrod of soldiers from Fort Benning, Ga. disporting themselves at an amusement park, and Peter Kurd's painting of B-17s returning at twilight from a raid on Rouen. Other artists shown: Henry Billings, Floyd Davis, Edward Laning, Fletcher Martin, Barse Miller...