Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fred Mitchell, Harvard baseball coach: "I've always said that the bigger they come the harder they fall, and this spitball pitcher that these Princetonian editors have may get by all right for eight innings but he's sure to blow up in the end. Tell the second baseman to play around, like Ullman doesn't, and the pitcher to keep out of the hole, like ours don't, play for the run, and you'll win. Anybody batting over a thousand gets a tryout with the Braves...
Exhaled Alcohol. In Cincinnati Dr. Emil Bogen persuaded persons arrested for intoxication to blow up football bladders. Such exhaled gasses he made to pass through a solution of potassium bichromate, which changed from yellow to green in proportion to the amount of alcohol on the individual's breath. Extra Physical Work up to ten times normal is possible for a human in fair health. Neither the heart nor lungs limited the amount of work the body could do, in the bicycle-riding experiments of Dr. L. J. Henderson of Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. Unsympathetic Cat. Dr. Walter Bradford Cannon...
...Hankow, the Nationalist Generalissimo, Chiang Kaishek, suddenly called a meeting of conservative Nationalists at Nanking. They voted to impeach the whole Nationalist Cabinet at Hankow on the ground that it is "Red," sparing only Foreign Minister Chen. Him they dubbed "misguided but loyal to Nationalism." C This keen blow by Chiang Kai-shek lopped off the Communist faction of Chinese Nationalism which has fattened at Hankow on Russian support. Overnight the Russian "adviser" to the Nationalist Government, Michael Borodin, went into hiding, "vanished." Then the seven principal district "generals" administering Nationalist territory pledged allegiance to Chiang Kaishek, declaring...
Last week two Coast Guard cutters, the Tampa, the Modoc, sailed north to play "I spy" with icebergs. They are to patrol steamship lanes, chart location of icebergs, figure the speed and direction of iceberg-drift, issue warning to Atlantic liners. Though equipped with mines designed to blow icebergs to pieces, they often find bergs which explosives can hardly injure. An iceberg may contain 36,000,000 tons of ice, eight-ninths of which are below the surface of the water. When dynamited, a giant berg merely loses a few large chunks, which then become small bergs, or "growlers...
...police called attention to the fact that Mr. Wilkins had been killed by seven knife wounds, each of which has now been avenged by the execution of a Mexican Indian. Further, the police explained that when a gang of Indians sets out to commit murder each must strike a blow, by custom, that all may be equally guilty and none tempted to betray the others...