Word: blew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gustav Cardinal Piffl, was en route sedately down the Ringstrasse in Vienna, last fortnight, when a newspaper blew from a housetop and enveloped suddenly the head of His Eminence...
Soon Lieutenant Araki composed himself for a night's sleep. At dawn, as the bugle blew for hoisting the Japanese ensign, he arose, mounted the bridge, faced the sun, as it rose over Japan, and shot himself...
Died. William S. Cherry, African explorer, discoverer of three unknown types of natives; drowned off the Mexican coast. On the S. S. Manchuria, some valuable papers blew across the deck. Explorer Cherry gave chase; the ship listed; he fell overboard...
...Bingham, Utah, a stanch steel cable furnishes trackage for the aerial tramway that connects the Utah Delaware Co.'s reducing plant with the mines. Last week as a high wind shrilled and blew, one Glen Higley, miner, rode the tram bucket. The cable thrummed; the slowly traveling bucket creaked and groaned as it swayed 200 feet above ground. Miner Higley felt frolicsome, peered over the edge. A bellows-gust of wind struck the swaying bucket neatly and pitched him out. Because he lit in a snow drift he will live...
...thought to be a quartz claim. General Fitz-John Porter† attempted to bore into the claim. Gold-miner Smith forthwith made an opening into the outlaw shaft from below, built a fire, and smoked out the General's workers. The General promptly installed a huge fan which blew the smoke down into the Smith workings, but whenever the fan was removed the fire was rebuilt. After three weeks the General gave up, returned east...