Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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United Gas Co. added an ironic note by revealing that up to this January it had sold the New London School Board a natural gas mixed with a tell-tale odorant that might have prevented the blast. But the most ironic product of the tragedy was right on top of the wreckage. Blown out of the ruined building was a section of blackboard on which someone had scrawled: "Oil and natural gas are East Texas' greatest mineral blessings. Without them this school would not be here, and none of us would be here learning our lessons...
...world in general, the Pope's blast against Communism was able but not new. Catholics who read an official abstract of the encyclical, issued by the Vatican, found little in it which their priests and publicists had not ceaselessly voiced, at the Pope's orders, during the past year...
...which have won the Institute's famed Mr. & Mrs. Frank G. Logan medal and prize. Since 1917, 230 awards have been made, $75,949 distributed in prize money. At the same time last week, less retiring Mrs. Frank Granger Logan published at her own expense her long awaited blast against "modernistic" painting in an elaborately illustrated book entitled Sanity...
Around the track slowly toured a curious contraption on wheels followed by harrows and a screen. It was a '"cooker," like the ones used to melt asphalt on highways, with six blast torches to dry out the ground. At Santa Anita, called the world's best racetrack, 18 miles northeast of Los Angeles, all this was part of the world's richest horserace: the Santa Anita Handicap...
...turned from Haile Selassie to Vittorio Emanuele III. Just as gifts were being handed to the populace, up from the milling, shouting, scrambling mob flew a flock of hand grenades left over from the War. Ethiopia's Archbishop in his flowing robes shared in the worst of the blast, received ghastly wounds. General Aurelio Liotta, Chief of Italy's East African Air Force, went down with great lacerations in his leg. The Viceroy, although wounded, was able to stand, shouted orders to his troops to arrest the whole mob of 2,000-an old Ethiopian custom...