Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thirds of his life to the trade of fistic war. He is not beau tiful. He is not agile. He is not even particularly strong, but long hours spent in the practice of his profession have given this virtue: he is hard to hurt. He absorbs, without feeling them, blows that would decimate an ordinary citizen. He was not afraid of little Samuel Mandell, a street-shiek of 22 with oiled hair and a nice smile, who confronted him in a rainy ball park in Chicago last week. Mandell kept popping left jabs into his face; even a very ordinary...
...coast of Connecticut seven squat little ships rode the grey waves of the Atlantic at dawn one sombre morning last week; a thousand men waited the order to "Blow her out" which would start the sunken submarine S-51 toward the surface from off her slimy bier in the ocean...
...behemothly for the surface. On the reeling decks above workers were astonished to see the nose of the sunken monster suddenly poke through the waves and into the sunlight once again. The crews cheered. In another moment the amidships pontoons appeared. It seemed that all that remained was to blow out the stern pontoons and tow the resurrected ship and her ghastly cargo back to a Christian harbor of refuge...
...made today that Harvard rowing has passed from the tutelage of one coach to that of another. The world of rowing will watch the development of the University eight during the next weeks with particular interest. Some may take the resignation of the former head coach as the final blow to an already mediocre rowing season. The more logical conclusion however, is that the change in regime being the very thing the crew most needed a Harvard eight will have once again more than a desperate chance of standing on equal terms with the most expert boats of the country...
...simple. In the centuries immediately preceding knowledge had not increased at a pace so rapid but that educators could digest, interpret, and relate to previous knowledge the new knowledge as it appeared. But with the nineteenth century the invigorating winds of a new critical and scientific spirit began to blow across the world. The scientific spirit began hunting, blasting, boring, probing, boiling, cooking, and dissecting. Men, animated by the Itch to know, began to dig up, at a disconcerting rate, all sorts of new, facts and new knowledge. Before long it became apparent that the new knowledge was coming...