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Word: blew (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suppressed a threatening revolution last week by switching Cabinets, declaring martial law for 60 days. That seemed to pacify the people of Chile, but not even Juan Esteban Montero could cope with her volcanoes. Volcanoes Tinguiririca, Quisapu. Cordillera, Descabezado, Cerro Azul all erupted at once. Rolling clouds of ashes blew East across Argentina, settled on Buenos Aires 500 miles away. All night the earth rumbled, the sky flashed, nobody went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILE: Irrepressible Andes | 4/18/1932 | See Source »

...Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, a dynamite cap which Rosette La Haye, 19, had used as an ornament on the tip of her pencil for a year, exploded, blew off three of her fingers, injured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Guelph | 4/18/1932 | See Source »

...There was a man who built a house upon the sand. And the rains descended and the floods came and the winds blew and beat upon that house and it is still there, and will be till Hell freezes over; because the man that built it had brains enough to know what he was doing. Costs too much to build a house upon a rock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Within Two Years | 4/18/1932 | See Source »

...Springfield, Mass., Charles Smith, 21, after purchasing five shotgun shells in a sport store, asked to see some shotguns. The clerk showed him one and then went down to the basement. Charles Smith put a shell in the gun, blew his own head off. A note in his pocket said: "Thanks a lot for the gun. I couldn't afford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 28, 1932 | 3/28/1932 | See Source »

...then the Hundred Days, to end at last when Old Blucher set his men to stabbing the Old Guard under the late June starlight. Not quite ended it is true, for six years later on a far isle in the sea a great storm of wind and rain blew up. And whilst it raged the Emperor died murmuring "France, Armee, Tete d'armee", and perhaps, as some say, "Josephine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 3/23/1932 | See Source »

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