Word: blastingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...laboratories deep beneath the land surface. The deepest man-made hole in the world is in Orange County, Cal., 8,201 ft. deep. The deepest mine in the world is St. John del Rey in the stage of Minas Geraes, Brazil, about 7,200 ft. down, where toiling men blast gold ore from the hot rock walls...
...cool edge to last week's breeze was a little rough on a pioneer and the Vagabond hopes soon to find some evidence in the blue prints of weather stripping so that future inhabitants can be entrenched tight against the winter's blast. With conditions as they are, however, this does not seem likely, and protection against the cold will probably be confined to the central heating plant...
...have been cold at the Harvard-Yale game a week ago Saturday, but it had nothing on the Boston College-Holy Cross affair played the day before yesterday in Fenway Park, the regular domicile of the tail-end Red Sox. There was a freezing blast sweeping the length of the gridiron which made it extremely difficult for the players to hold on to the ball and for the spectators to convince themselves that they really gave a hoot who won the game. The specs got pretty badly fooled by the weather conditions, good seats in the middle of the field...
...Last week the Senate Chamber held another similar exhibition, including toy soldiers, a violin, an umbrella, a bird cage, salad bowls. Asked Senator Barkley of Kentucky: "By what authority have Kresge and Woolworth moved into this chamber?" Warrior Norris picked up a cornet, blew on it a long mocking blast. On the desk of Brigadier Brookhart, tattler on "Wall Street booze parties" was playfully set a large purple champagne bottle...
...same method might be used to correct other lovers of cacaphony. Those who insist on letting their radios loose at full blast in what should be the dead of night could be cheerfully sentenced to an eternity of bad jazz. For the Gold Coast bottle-throwers and week-end revelers, a hell of raucous outcries, accompanied by an undertone of breaking glass could well be prescribed...