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Word: blasted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Administration levelled a double-barrelled blast at the Placement Bureau problem yesterday with the announcement that a committee of alumni is investigating all aspects of the question and that in the mean while Phillips Brooks House will be allowed to fill the gap with a temporary placement office headed by John L. Steele...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University O.K.'s P.B.H. Placement Office | 10/29/1941 | See Source »

...Unfinished Business" is the kind of picture people are talking about when they blast Hollywood for wasting its best talent on inferior material. It's directed by one of the top men in the industry, Gregory LaCava; it's got Robert Montgomery and Irene Dunne, two sure-fire bets for a successful film, in the lead spots. And it still doesn't click...

Author: By J. H. K., | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 10/22/1941 | See Source »

...happened when Dick Harlow asked Bingham to take the famed Harlow tin whistle and give it a blast whenever the ball was downed. On the first play the ball was snapped, backs spun, and Bingham raced down the left side of the field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faker Leaves Bill Bingham Breathless and "Beepless" | 10/8/1941 | See Source »

That night, 10,000 strong, they swarmed into Manhattan, stormed its Grand Central Terminal to welcome home their "champeens." Led by bands at full blast, they snake-danced around the station, toting homemade placards: THEM BUMS DONE IT. DUROCHER FOR MAYOR. CAMILLI FOR PRESIDENT...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bums v. Bombers | 10/6/1941 | See Source »

Scholar Siepmann is convinced that radio permits the concentration of power in the hands of a few-power to blast social concepts, to construct or destroy. He is appalled by the fact that of the 500 U.S. universities offering radio courses, only four (Harvard, Princeton, U. of Southern California, Lancaster, Pa.'s Franklin and Marshall College) touch on its social implications...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Dynamite at Harvard | 10/6/1941 | See Source »

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