Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Conference broke up over the week-end with nothing to show except an impasse on the loan security question, which is really a blow aimed at France, who vigorously maintained her right under the Treaty of Versailles to take separate action, if necessary, against Germany...
...blue silk shorts, tried to rip them off and expose dire injury. This demented man was null Descamps, Manager of Georges Carpentier, French light heavyweight, arguing in his French way that the "Gorgeous Orchid Man," now a wilted frond, had been crushed by Gene Tunney with a blow below the belt in the 14th (penultimate) round of their fight for Tunney's U. S. light heavyweight boxing title. Policemen subdued Descamps. Referee Griffin seized Tunney's right hand, held it aloft, said: "You win, Gene!" The scene had taken place on a brilliantly illuminated platform in the centre...
...reports from 11 countries which last year produced 64% of the world's wheat, showed an estimate of 15% below last year's production. This, if it comes to pass, means improved prices. It means more money in the pockets of our farmers. It is a worse blow to the LaFollette ticket than any political maneuver which could be engineered by Republicans or Democrats. It vindicates those members of the Administration who said: "We will give you farmers what financially sound relief can be given through better credit. The law of supply and demand will eventually give...
...into operation." But, warned he, if the plan were refused, the reaction on business in the U. S. would be "more severe than anything which has happened since the War... All European exchanges would be subject to further severe shocks. Trade and commerce would be dealt a terrible blow...
...constant-current regulator for arc light dynamos (he perfected the arc lamp), the induction motor, the art of welding metals by electricity, the magnetic blow-out for switches, lightning erectors of various types, constant current transmitters, a generator which was "one of the first and most effective and ingenious" in early electrical development, a recording watt hour metre. In the field of mechanical engineering he is respon sible for important developments in steam engines, steam turbines and the internal combustion engine...