Word: blew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...musicians were up to really big doings. They moved into the Masonic Temple's 4,500-seat main auditorium, and more than half the seats were filled. They also pulled in some new musicians to build the orchestra up to a big-sounding 94 pieces. They bowed and blew their way through Howard Hanson's Romantic Symphony No. 2, then wound things up with resounding performances of Grieg's Piano Concerto in A Minor and Sibelius' Finlandia. As usual, they mingled with the audience afterward, but this time they had something special to talk about. With...
...from her ruptured tanks; gasoline spread around her in a sea of flames. Like many another skipper, Sherman had long before figured out just what he would do if he "caught a fish." In an inferno of smoke and exploding ammunition, he maneuvered his ship so that the flames blew away from the hull, backed her stern clear of the flaming, gasoline-covered water. Sherman was the last man to leave. He was burned, and badly shaken up by depth charges while he was in the water; 193 of his men were dead. But through the lane he had cleared...
Dunsters' A team handed the slumping Lowell's their third straight defeat, 52 to 50. The Bellboys blew a 13 point lead in the second half of the see-saw contest, and a fast-breaking Funster scoring thrust, led by Chuck Brynteson's 21 points, pushed it into overtime...
Flying Missiles. Well-constructed Japanese buildings, said AEC's engineers, are at least as bomb-resistant as their counterparts in the U.S. Some of the newer ones, built to meet an earthquake code, are stronger. But the bomb blast rocked them and twisted them, blew away their sides, crumpled their floors and caved in their roofs. Brick-walled buildings, common in the U.S., flew into bits, big steel-skeletoned factories of U.S. type collapsed into twisted tangles...
...curly-headed classmate named Florence; 14 years later he married her. At the University of Illinois he decided to make education his career, later went on for a Ph.D. at Columbia University's Teachers College, the nearest thing to Mecca in modern education. There, the winds-of doctrine blew about him, from the fiery progressivism of Deweyite William Kilpatrick to the suave conservatism of William ("I'd rather be right than Progressive") Bagley. As Kenneth Oberholtzer proceeded on his career, he found his own philosophy "somewhere in between." By the time Denver got around to picking...