Word: blow
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...band. Meanwhile Della Croca, while attempting to coerce his daughter, Trivia, into a mercenary marriage, forces her by his violence to run away and join her lover, the secretary of the Dynamiters. These are confident of the success of their conspiracy. But the failure of Nitro's attempt to blow up the king breaks up their plans and forces them into hiding. The news of the outrage, combined with the flight of Trivia, sets the whole town in an uproar and finally rouses the prime minister to action...
...acquainted with all his classmates. At the same time another cause, the growth of the elective system, combined with this to break down all class distinctions. Not only were the classes too large to have any unity, but the destruction of all scholastic barriers between the classes struck a blow at the system on which the class societies were based. The direct outcome of this was the formation of a number of clubs which took in members from every class, the indirect outcome was the loss of the unity of the University, and a marked decadence in athletics...
...Brookline, who died Saturday afternoon while boxing in Craige Hall. The finding of the autopsy was that the deceased dies from an enlargement of the heart produced by a chronic valvular disease in that organ. The failure of the heart happened to be co-incident with the last blow struck, but was in no way produced...
...principal objection to wearing them is that they are said to be uncomfortably warm. This objection would not hold if we wore them without coats or vests beneath them. The material of which the gowns are made is loosely woven and thin, so that the gentle spring breezes can blow through it with a good deal less effort than an ordinary coat requires...
...rebuttal was ragged and their form crude. There was far more assertion than proof in the Boston University case, but its principal points were: That the United States should maintain the integrity of China to secure the payment of the Chinese indemnity, and because disruption would be a serious blow to Democracy...