Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...changes have been made in the procedure for wardens, it was announced last night. From now on, in all such tests, wardens must stay on duty for twenty minutes after the all-clear signal, which is one long, continous blast, has sounded...
...scale unequaled even by the Renaissance Church, they began earnestly plastering the walls of U.S. post offices and courthouses with attempts at monumentality. By 1940 they had created some 1,550 murals. Many sought heroic subject matter in modern industrialism; turning out acres of dynamos, steam presses, and blast furnaces. Because their ambition often outweighed the strength and clarity of their convictions, most of these murals were failures. Only a few have come close to striking the common man as embodiments of his ideals. High on the list of successful murals painted during this period are those of Kansan John...
There will be production difficulties, too. Although such stars as Paul Robeson (who will play Othello at Cambridge and Princeton), Gertrude Lawrence, Tallulah Bankhead, Ruth Chatterton, Jane Cowl and Gracie Fields are scheduled, few Hollywood headliners will have their usual summer fling at legit. Hollywood, going full blast, can't spare them...
...intestine cut to ribbons by flying glass, or loops of gut hanging out of slashed stomachs. Sometimes, although no missiles penetrated the abdominal cavity, indriven fragments of bone did as much damage as bullets. Concussion of a nearby bomb often produced fatal internal hemorrhages, torn spleen and liver. "Immersion blast"-internal injury inflicted on sailors in the water near an exploding depth bomb-sometimes produced ripped intestines, peritonitis, bleeding from ears and mouth...
...When the carriers were sunk, the whole huge task force had to turn tail. The thesis was strengthened last week when land-based U.S. Consolidated bombers from Northern Africa hammered the Italian Fleet (see p. 22). And the Army in Alaska is even using land-based torpedo planes to blast the Japs out of Attu and Kiska harbor...