Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...idle to speculate on the possible motives for Russia's actions. It would be no more fruitful than trying to discover why the wind should blow east instead of west. Certainly Russia is cutting off her own nose, whether to spite her face or not. When she had at last been successful in wooing England into a trade agreement and since then has done everything possible to nullify its articles and to put England into a bad humor, she may expect to travel far before finding another commercial friend...
...deal of mental agony. To loss her English trade will hurt badly, but to humiliate herself will probably hurt worse. As for England she has thoroughly vindicated herself-respect, and in spite of the resentment of this action by Labor M. P.'s, those who like to see a blow-hard put in his place will admire England's stand...
...University second baseball team faces the undefeated Andover nine at Andover today with a line-up greatly altered because of injuries suffered in the game with Dean Academy last Monday. Fitton has not yet recovered from the blow he received on the mouth from a ball that bounced poorly for him, and Hoffman's knee has stiffened as the result of a foul tip which struck him on the knee-cap. Gardner, who has substituted several times already this year, will start at third, and Chipman will be behind...
...Turks certainly encountered a blow from the United States, whom they had hoped to appease by the Chester concession, when Joseph C. Grew, United States Minister to Switzerland and " official observer " at the conference, made it clear that his country would support the Allies in their capitulations claim. He also said that his position was that of an observer, but that he had " full authority" from his Government to speak for the United States...
...first round Signor Giunta received a blow in the abdomen, but, as he had managed partly to parry the thrust, he was only struck with the flat of his opponent's sword. In the second round both combatants were wounded, Forni in the face and right hand, Giunta in the right arm. The doctors then stopped the bout...