Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been written in any relation to the others, each bearing the stamp of its time and reflecting the varying "excellences and limitations of its author"; said of the Gospel: "It is not a narcotic to superinduce numbness or oblivion to the wrongs of this life. It is a trumpet blast echoing along the horizons of the world, challenging to combat every evil, every sin, every wrong." This man was a worthy successor to Henry Ward Beecher (incumbent 1847-87), Lyman Abbott (incumbent 1888-99) and Newell Dwight Hillis (incumbent 1899-1924)* as pastor of Plymouth Church, decided the fifteen quizzing...
...ounce, in "smoke parlors" operated by the government, whereas the government imports tin drug from China for less than $1 an ounce. During 1925 almost $300 000 was spent by the government in building new and more luxurious "smoke parlors" which are now reported in full blast. The natives, accustomed to chandu, apparently feel no more than a slight "head" on the day following an evening of indulgence...
...from acute indigestion. Presently we heard a camel gurgle in response. It was not one of ours! By this time I was thinking furiously of certain quaint amusements indulged in by un-Frenchifled indigenes, in which the stranger within the gates is the principal actor. Suddenly there came a blast on a whistle and on all sides appeared camel men in white burnooses, all very pretty and business-like but what mainly caught my attention was the fact that the leader was wearing a kepl...
...accept $12 a week and less per man. The loss on curtailed coal production was $480,000,000. Of losses to allied industries the leading railroads suffered $125,000,000, shipping $50,000,000 more; and the steel industry was so hard hit that of the 147 furnaces in blast last May only five were in blast this December. Of the adding up of such costs there is no end, but the Wall Street Journal conservatively placed the grand total at "well over a billion dollars...
...moved in a burst of gratitude to the U. S. to sanction the long mooted sale of 51% of the stock of the Nicaragua National Bank to the Guarantee Trust Co. of Manhattan, an institution which has more than once made history in Latin America. Said President Diaz, to blast any suspicion of U. S. "dollar diplomacy": "If the Bank of Nicaragua had been controlled by U. S. interests it would not have been robbed of $161,000 [TIME, May 17] by armed revolutionaries of the Nicaraguan Liberal Party...