Word: blew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Recovery's flame, burst out in many a happy pop: ¶ The American Washing Machine Manufacturers' Association announced that factory shipments of household washers for ten months of 1935 totaled 1,241,000 against 1,097,000 in ten months of 1934. ¶ In Gilbertville, Mass. musicians blew bugles at street corners, assembled the town's population to hear good news. The George H. Gilbert Manufacturing Co. (worsted fabrics) was ordering 100 new looms, would reopen its largest mill about Jan. 1, expected soon to be employing 800 hands. The population cheered, paraded around the village common...
When Mrs. Clouser saw the stories about her husband, she blew up. Next day press association wires clicked out a statement by Dr. Clouser that he had been "misquoted." His denial: "I never gave an overdose of any drug and I never willingly did anything in my power to hasten death for any sick person, regardless of his condition or wishes...
...Lome township, Ontario, Canada, William Minkinen, 55, leaped from a high rock into Vermillion River, slashing his throat with & knife in his right hand, holding a lighted stick of dynamite in his left. The cut was superficial, the explosion blew off his left hand. William Minkinen died of drowning...
...last week General Oreste Mariotti squinted from mule-back along the dry bed of the Ende River, a strip of boulders and gravel between mountainous shrub covered hills, blew his whistle and halted his column...
...atom if he could wrench at it with tremendous magnetic forces. His first apparatus was a battery of accumulators short-circuiting through a wire coil, producing a momentary magnetic field of high power. Next he designed a huge dynamo to provide the short-circuiting power. With this the coils blew up. Kapitza stopped that by chilling the coils with liquid helium ( −270° C.). Finally he was able to produce magnetic fields of 320,000 gauss, five times as intense as any previously created...