Word: blew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Navy were obsolete war-toys, and a gift for invective second only to that of Generals Smedley Butler and Hugh S. Johnson. As assistant chief of the Army air forces, he nettled his superiors so often that he was not reappointed. Removed to Texas as a colonel, he blew off the lid in 1925 by charging the War and Navy Departments with "almost treasonable'' administration, used the same words and others when the dirigible Shenandoah crashed. Court-martialed and suspended, he resigned, retired to his Virginia estate, from which he emerged at frequent intervals to damn his onetime...
...Robert Hutchings Goddard, rangy, bald, 53, foremost U. S. rocketeer. Born in Worcester, Mass., where he became professor of physics at Clark University, Goddard started puttering with rockets in 1907. The Smithsonian Institution gave him $12,000 over a period of twelve years. When one of his contraptions blew up over Worcester, the terrified townsfolk forced him to desist. He moved to Camp Devens, later to the desert near Roswell, N. Mex. Since 1930 his expenses have been paid by the Guggenheims...
...more surveys. In the last six years Army engineers have spent upwards of $300,000 examining 27 possible routes for the canal. After President Roosevelt's inauguration, Floridians appealed to RFC for a canal loan, then to PWA, finally to WPA, all without success until the September hurricane blew the Dixie into big black headlines throughout...
...Special Theory blew up the notion of an absolute frame of location or "hitching post" in the universe. Two observers moving relatively toward each other had to carry their own frames of reference. The two would not agree as to the separation of events in either space or time. But the interval-the separation of events in four-dimensional space-time-would be the same for all observers if their relative speeds were constant...
...Hamilton, Ont., a stray cat struggled so desperately against Inspector E. G. McDonald's efforts to push it into the lethal gas chamber that the static electricity in its fur exploded the gas. The explosion blew the chamber to bits and knocked out Inspector McDonald. The cat vanished...