Word: blew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...same misfortune encountered during the previous period. In spite of the weak defense maintained by Holy Cross the Crimson court men failed to sink their shots. At the same time their own defense was decidedly inadequate and the invaders kept piling up the score until the final whistle blew when it stood...
Throughout England this great wind, so easily overcome by the airplane, blew down 150 telephone lines, blew up floods from several rivers, blew a steeplejack off the spire of St. Helen's Church, London, killing him instantly, injured 300 persons, killed 19 beside the poor steeplejack...
...first half was fairly even, the score standing at 16 to 12 in Harvard's favor when the whistle blew, Getting away to a fast start in the second period, the University quintet rushed the Terriers off their feet. With the score 37-15, Coach Wachter their sent in his second string players who increased the lead by six points...
...cold and dismal in New Haven late Saturday night. The railroad station loomed bleak and cavernous, offering small comfort to the band of weary and discouraged Harvard supporters, which blew on its fingers and looked longingly up the track toward Boston. The Crimson had failed to flash in triumph, and here was a group who had suffered thereby, and who had to attend Monday morning classes in the Yard. But to do this meant something that was very much missing from the faithful at that moment...
...province but were later outwitted by the wisest of kings. There was Weng Fu, the wit-wandering beggar who sold himself as a father to an orphan boy in the Street of Wang's Broken Tea Cup near the Seven Thieves Market, and "that lazy Ah Fun" who blew up his honorable father with the bed-stove, broooomp! All these things and many more Mr. Chrisman noted down carefully, wrote out with humor and understanding...