Word: blew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from the start, Rainbow was leading by 1 min. 34 sec. Coming back both set parachute spinnakers and Yankee began to gain. For 15 miles she inched up on Rainbow. A half mile from the finish, her bow was even with Rainbow's mast. At the finish, a whistle blew as each boat flashed over the line but spectators had no idea which one had crossed first. The members of the race committee, shouting through cupped hands from the deck of the committee boat, told them: "Rainbow, by one second...
...enough to win the first race against Yankee in the final series. In her second race Skipper Vanderbilt outmaneuvered Skipper Adams at the start to win by three minutes over the international course. A squall from the north when the boats were running before a brisk southerly breeze blew Yankee's parachute spinnaker flat against her mast, broke the jumper strut and forced her to withdraw from the third race. After the fourth, which Rainbow won in a fresh breeze over a 30-mi. triangle, by two-and-a-half minutes, observers were prepared to hear that Rainbow had been...
...Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., were held the annual elections of the Ca-Choo Club, composed of 118 visiting hay fever sufferers. L. E. Harris sneezed so hard he blew his glasses ten feet across the room, was promptly re-elected president...
When New York's potent Ulen & Co. got the dam contract in 1929, swaggering, dynamic President Carlos Ibafiez had been "the Chilean Mussolini" for two years and both his regime and his treasury seemed rock-ribbed. Two years later the Ibafiez Dictatorship blew up and Ulen & Co. wrote in their Report to Stockholders: "The work on contracts for the Republic of Chile was suspended in 1931, due to the inability of the clients to furnish funds for their continuance...
...Ravenna, Ohio, Jaspara Servia was ganged by fellow employes of the Erie Railroad. The pranksters pushed an air-hose into his body, turned on no l10b. pressure, blew him up to more than double his size. Hoping to save his life, surgeons cut open and deflated Jaspara Servia...