Word: blast
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jerusalem. Anciently called Lachish, this site was a fortress in the Kingdom of Judah. Nebuchadnezzar stormed it when he invaded Palestine. Earlier, King Sennacherib of Assyria stopped there before he swept down like the wolf on the fold and before the Lord, through Isaiah, said: "I will send a blast upon him" and killed his 185,000 troops (II Kings, 19: 7, 35). What Dr. Starkey found at Lachish last week were twelve scraps of pottery, apparently from the archives of the city, dating from the time of the Book of Kings and containing the names of many a person...
Last week the old familiar Epstein sensation was going full blast again. The Daily Mirror, stirred to the depths of its cylinder presses, refused to reproduce a photograph...
Smiled the Baron, after reading the blast, "You can see for yourself how little perturbed...
...suspenders, post cards. An anonymous couplet swept the land: Please do not think I'm bad or bold, But where it's deep it's awful cold. And whenever the excitement seemed likely to die out there were always rival Comstocks in provincial cities ready to blast the picture all over again...
...Despite blast and counterblast between President Roosevelt and Soviet Foreign Minister Litvinoff, each of whom remains convinced that the other is a liar,† Russia's Amtorg Trading Corp. continues to buy in the U. S. much as if there had been no quarrel-making diplomatic recognition of Moscow by Washington (TIME, Nov. 27, 1933). Last week bustling Amtorg Board Chairman Ivan Boyeff signed in Pittsburgh a contract with Pittsburgh's United Engineering & Foundry Co. to buy more than $3,500,000 worth of electric-powered, roller-bearing equipment for the $700,000,000 Zaporozhstal (steel) Works, most...