Word: blast
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...miles the convicts tossed out Secretary Noon to warn pursuing police that the boardmen were still in their automobile. Finding a raised drawbridge in their path, they doubled back, sped unharmed through the helpless posse. The police caught up again, burst their quarry's rear tires with a blast of bullets. A slug plowed through Boardman Sykes' thigh, pinked Boardman Stephens...
...possible increase in flexibility, every real recognition of the difference between the exceptional and the usual student will receive our unqualified approval. Finally, we hold it nonsensical to attack those institutions which have made Yale what it is, however uneducational some may claim them to be. Hence, the traditional blast at the Senior Societies will not appear. The Junior Fraternition can expect our support. By and large we approve extra-curricular activities...
...would-be lynchers turned tail under the blast, Judge Coleman hastily declared a mistrial, ruefully admitted that the attempt to prosecute the case at Shelbyville was "a mistake." Guardsmen wrapped puttees around Negro Harris' trembling legs, clapped a gas mask over his black face, covered his shabby sweater with a militia greatcoat, rushed him out to an automobile. Determined officers sped the blackamoor to Nashville and safety. Their job done, the troops marched out to the edge of Shelbyville and pitched camp...
...very day of this Papal blast a self-appointed commission to investigate Spain's atrocities reached Madrid. Led by the 5th Earl of Listowel, the investigators consisted of M. Charles Bourthomieux of the French Court of Appeals. Miss "Wee Ellen" Wilkinson, a pert proletarian and onetime British Labor M. P., and Lord Listowel's secretary, a Czech named Katz...
Every one of the 37 men on the squad is in fine shape for the approaching conflict, and is on his toes for a chance to blast the myth of Yale's inspired greatness. Optimism runs through the whole Crimson camp despite the unfavorable predictions that are being made by most of the "inside dopesters...