Word: blew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...night last week, while socialites gathered around the illicit green gaming tables of the recently reopened Quitan-dinha Hotel at Petropolis, Baby stepped to the door, blew a shrill blast on a police whistle. As the guests scampered out, Baby tipped his straw hat to them. Another time, when he visited New York, he booked a suite of eight rooms in a Park Avenue hotel, rang up various girl friends and gave a continuous house party...
...about culture," trilled Authoress Ilka (Past Imperfect) Chase, 44, who blew into Portland, Ore. to tell dealers how to sell Cadillacs to women. "Of course," she told the press, one "can be very successful or proficient and still not be cultured...
Every new airplane engine starts out in life as a fairly simple machine but gets more & more complicated as it grows up. Ram jets are no exception. The early models were hardly more than hollow cylinders-enchantingly simple, but also extremely inefficient. Their "fires" often blew out, and there was no adequate way to control their power output. So the engineers went to work to educate the ram jet and teach it how to act as a well-behaved engine should. Recently the Wright Aeronautical Corp. told how a grown-up supersonic ram jet works...
Adams topped Eliot in the B league with Red MacDougall tossing in six counters. The Gold Coasters blew an early ten point lead, but managed to stay in front in the second half. The final score was 29 to 26. Winthrop and Dudley fought it out for the B league basement in a slow defensive game, with Winthrop managing to climb out of its seventh place slot on a 24 to 10 victory...
Coach Norm Shepard's five, which beat Dartmouth, 60 to 58, at Hanover Saturday night, should not have too much trouble handing Penn its sixth League defeat in seven starts. The Quakers smothered the Green 83 to 42 but blew their next game to Cornell 54 to 35 and followed it up with losses to Columbia and Princeton...