Word: blast
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thoroughly the smoking-for-women trend has swept the country is now demonstrated by the increasing number of big railroads which have felt themselves obliged to print "Smoking Permitted" on their menus. The exhalation of smoke from feminine lungs is becoming, in the aggregate, a mighty blast of fashion which railroad economists may not ignore. Railroads which have already trimmed their sails to catch this blast...
...Congressman Douglass has so much passion on tap why not use some of it for the benefit of East Boston. Why not blast the Elevated for the way it laid tracks in the Bennington boulevard, destroying the beauty of a highway that cost $750.000? Why not roar at Mayor Nichols for cancelling the taxes of the East Boston Land Co, to the amount of one hundred fifty-two thousand dollars? Why not condemn the outrageous bathing facilities for the little children at Wood Island, where the bathhouses is on the edge of a dirty pool, a breeder of typhoid...
...livestock men at a disadvantage by raising U. S. feed prices; 10) increase U. S. taxes. President Hoover summed up: ". . . [its] theoretical benefits would not be reflected to the farmer; it would create profiteering; it contains elements which would bring American agriculture to disaster." Division. The Hoover blast against the debenture plan came after farm politics had divided House and Senate. Farm lobbyists were once more in full, though discordant, cry. The American Farm Bureau Federation had backed the administration (House) bill. The National Grange had favored the debenture (Senate) plan. Careful not to blame Congress too early...
...familiar ring; the vibration, he thought which shivers through all great poetry. But no, its ring was too familiar; he had heard something very much like it before. And then he remembered-and both his poem and the beauty of the day were blown away in a particularly nauseous blast form the abattoir. The moral being that there are disadvantages as well as gains in vagabonding...
...could be hurled as a projectile. There was no time to find out. Back on their farm in north ern Italy after the Armistice, they experimented with six-ton cannon. One day six years ago Ugo crawled into the gun's muzzle. The brother "fired" it, a blast of compressed air plus a puff of gunpowder smoke to make it realistic. Ugo hurtled out and landed, unhurt, in a haystack. Now they have perfected the trick. The "gunner" brother takes care of the mechanism, guards it jealously. At each performance Ugo climbs into the barrel. Much depends...