Word: blast
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...waterpower tunnel was begun at Gauley Bridge along the forest-fringed New River in southern West Virginia, with cheap transient labor, black and white, from mountain districts as far away as Georgia. The tunnel went through white sandstone and quartz which were 99% pure silica. Every blast of dynamite puffed deadly silica dust down the throats of sappers who wore no protective masks over their mouths & noses. Rapidly men began to die of silicosis, pneumonia and tuberculosis. When workmen refused to go into the tunnel heads, foremen, according to subsequent court testimony, often clubbed them on. But the foremen dutifully...
With the issuance of a call for Freshman candidates, Harvard's three shooting units, the Rifle Club, the Pistol Club, and the Naval Science rifle team, were peppering the target end of their Memorial Hall range at full blast early this week, and expect to announce their respective schedules and have their teams picked by competition shortly...
...telephone. He was held for first-degree murder. In Science versus Crime,* a vivid survey of modern scientific criminology, Author Henry Morton Robinson has glowing things to say of scopolamine, believes extensive, skillful use of it would eliminate much third-degree brutality. Quite another view was apparent in a blast last week from Dean Paul G. Toohey of Kansas City's Rockhurst College, who was outraged by the Frisch confession. "The procedure," Dean Toohey roared, "is unjust ... an arrogant, unethical, immoral defiance of human rights and U. S. Constitutional guarantees . . . employed by the police department of the Tammany...
...home over the whole range of vertebrate evolution, he especially liked big animals, was a world authority on the development of titanotheres, elephants and horses. He met Darwin in London, studied under Thomas Henry Huxley after that astute scientist and mighty polemist had delivered his evolutionary blast against Bishop Wilberforce. Osborn similarly tangled with John Roach Straton and William Jennings Bryan ("The Earth," said he, "speaks to Bryan but he doesn't hear a sound"). An able administrator, he turned his museum into a splendidly staffed and equipped capital of scientific research. Died. Frau Elizabeth FÖrster-Nietzsche...
...would be asked to join the German team next year. Even before the Normandie docked, Mr. Sherrill was handed a letter from the U. S. Committee on Fair Play in Sports, asking him to support the move to withdraw the U. S. from the 1936 Olympics. The blast that Sportsman Sherrill uttered in reply promptly turned the flame into a thoroughgoing conflagration. Said...