Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Conscious that he was about to sound thus the tuba of Empire, Signor Mussolini sought to demonstrate, earlier in the week, that at least he has no designs upon crag-defended Switzerland. Said he to a Swiss newsgatherer: "The Swiss will never have occasion to fear Italy, nor any blow from here, nor any wicked enterprise. I love Switzerland. I have for Switzerland a preference which I have for no other country outside of my own. It is one of my sentimental frailties...
Died. Harry Houdini (onetime Harry Weiss), 52, famed magician; in Detroit, Mich.; of peritonitis, following a blow on the stomach, delivered by an inquisitive and injudicious McGill University student...
...Yale encounter. Captain Coady and French, whose play stood out in the Crimson line and backfield respectively, are also on the doctor's list but should be in uniform again by Thursday. Both were badly battered in the course of the game and French also received a severe blow on the head which finally forced his with drawl from action...
...further reported as having declared that "The political separation of the Philippines from America would deal a heavy blow to the economic welfare of the Filipinos. . . . . since it would mean the destruction of our economic structure and the dislocation and disintegration of our social and political institutions and the lowering of our standard of living." Mr. Villamin's "deep" study of economics has led him to the conclusion that Filipines most attend to their stomach first before thinking of independence. Yes, indeed! Especially is this true of jelly-fish. And Mr. Villamin ought to know...
...political separation of the Philippines from America would deal a heavy blow to the economic welfare of the Filipinos, since it would mean the loss of the tariff protection which Philippine goods enjoy in American markets. This protection is the very life blood of Philippine industry, and its loss would mean the destruction of our economic structure and the dislocation and disintegration of our social and political institutions and the lowering of our standard of living...