Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from the Tariff Commission for a 50% duty increase on cheesecloth. If the President wishes to follow this recommendation, Mr. Forster will prepare the customary order and proclamation. And here are the engraved commissions for the six new U. S. judges just confirmed by the Senate. Would the President blow up a bridge in California tomorrow evening? Very well, Mr. Forster will arrange for the connection. What flowers does the President like on his desk? Mr. Forster will get them. Will the President receive a delegation of Choctaw Indians and be photographed with them? No? Mr. Forster will send...
...called Chance Machine distributed ball bearings so that ten added impulses were given haphazardly among the horses by a second series of electric motors. Thus any horse might suddenly frisk ahead, outdistancing rivals with a higher starting speed, only to "stumble'' in the middle of the race or "blow up" at the finish...
...severe blow to Harvard's chances of downing the Dartmouth sextet tomorrow night came with the announcement that John Tudor '29, captain and crack left wing of the University hockey team, will be hors de combat for at least two weeks...
After such a long period as undisputed head of his clan, the Student Vagabond was shocked to discover that a plot had been made to oust him from his position. Yesterday morning the blow fell when one of his own supporters bestowed the title of King of the Vagabonds upon a usurper whose only claim to distinction was his attendance at an examination in a course he was not taking, a vowedly from motives of curiosity. True, the loyal forces suppressed the traitor and his protege, but the Student Vagabond's security demands a public explanation...
...propose to overthrow my Cabinet, mes amis," cried the Prime Minister, "do so now! A crisis today would have serious but reparable consequences. A crisis once the negotiations have begun would be a mortal blow to France...