Word: blast
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perhaps the biggest and best news in the world last week concerned Western Germany, on whose battered pits and blast furnaces and factories depend Europe's future and (very likely) the world's peace. Western Germany was what the "Berlin crisis" was all about. The Russians had imposed the Berlin blockade in a desperate attempt to prevent Western German recovery. This Russian plan failed. Just four months after the Western Allies introduced their great currency reform, Western Germany was on its feet again. Its revival was a notable triumph for German energy and for certain Western ideas, including...
Machines for Herr Donath. What is left of German industry is working full blast. Production has nearly doubled in a year, is now at 70% of the 1936 level. Coal output has climbed to over 300,000 tons a day. Steel production has risen to a rate of 7,000,000 tons a year...
Last week the Tribune's four-installment series on Dartmouth came out with a blast against the "cult of America-Last internationalism" and President Dickey's famed "Great Issues" course. The "Quality in Newspapers" exhibit seemed to hurt the Trib most...
Today, the patient is practically as good as new physically. Mentally, she is much better. Before she shot herself, Dr. Holmes explained, she had a "pyramiding depression" (a depression that grows steadily worse). The shotgun blast had, in effect, performed in seconds a brain operation that ordinarily takes hours. It was "practically the same," said Dr. Holmes, as an anterior lobectomy-i.e., part of the frontal areas of the brain, which control emotions, had been cut through. At the hospital the patient was "perfectly oriented and cooperative"; she is now working in a hotel and living normally with...
...chatted mainly about the high cost of living, criticizing Governor Bradford for allowing price hikes on 400 necessities of life. On billboards and in Dever's own oratory, prices have been the central issue. But the Governor is against the veteran," one lady said recently. She went on to blast Bradford's vote of a bill giving civil service pay to gold star mothers and war widows, and his veto of a bill allowing paraplegics $500 yearly...