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Word: bladed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late afternoon river traffic, the two University 150-pound boats and the Sophomore class eight raced over the upstream mile course yesterday. Plans for putting the crews through their paces over the Henley distance were thwarted by a head wind which ruffled the basin and defied smooth blade-work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHOPPY WATER AND HEAD WINDS HINDER CREWS IN WORKOUT | 5/8/1931 | See Source »

...adopted, I am sure will hr.sten the above christening. In order, therefore, to prevent our being caught napping, and to lend dignity to a most undignified sobriquet, I feel that a translation printed in Latin beneath the insignia would be the answer. The zizzing of TIME'S razor blade smartness prompts me to apply to you for suggestions as to the best manner in which to phrase Belly Bumpers in Latin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 4, 1931 | 5/4/1931 | See Source »

...left for dead but who turned up as witnesses at the trial had hysterics, screamed, fainted in the court. But no less calm than the prisoner was one stolid, buxom peasant wench. She told how Kuerten had got her down, pierced her 30 times with a dagger "until the blade broke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Nine-Lived Fiend | 5/4/1931 | See Source »

...with a dagger," objected Peter Kuerten. "I used one blade from a pair of scissors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Nine-Lived Fiend | 5/4/1931 | See Source »

Most enlightening report came from the Department of Commerce which carefully stipulated that it must not be construed as an official finding. The Department inspectors dug the engines out of the earth to find that the right outboard engine had no propeller blades nor propeller hub, although the safety nut which holds them in place was still intact. The hub must have been broken. If, as reported, ice collected on the wings then it may have collected on the propeller hub too. A piece of ice dislodged from the hub might have struck a whirling blade and broken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: A Piece of Ice? | 4/13/1931 | See Source »

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