Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...billowed in from the sea. It blurred the outlines of the ancient town and muffiled the hammers in the shipyard where hundreds of workmen tortured English oak into ships and more ships for King William, scotching the Sun King, so they thought, with every hammer-blow...
Infection Centre. To date Georgians have struck no blow against what shocked Under Secretary of Agriculture Rexford Guy Tugwell has called their state of "bootleg slavery." Not so the lean tenant farmers of Arkansas, whose memorable bread-riot at England, Ark., four years ago (TIME, Jan. 12, 1931) made the country sit up and take notice...
Another sledge hammer blow has fallen on the New Deal and section 7A has been declared null and void. Of course an appeal will be taken, putting more work on the already overburdened shoulders of the Department of Justice. But this appeal will take some time before it is settled. Meanwhile the bill to extend the life of N. R. A. awaits passage...
...Court ruled that it must be deposited in a Mexican bank. To add to Eagle's woes, the Mexican Government abruptly issued a sweeping decree that all concessions of State lands to Eagle were "unconstitutional and against the best interests of the Republic." This looked like a body blow but it was in fact just another feeler. As Eagle's British President John Alexander Assheton promptly pointed out, all Eagle's oil comes not from conceded State lands but from land privately owned. However, according to the original concession, Eagle had the right to import supplies duty...
...tube is really a double tube, one inside the other. The inside tube or "lung," made of two-ply fabric, floats free under normal riding conditions, has a single small vent through which air escapes slowly when a blowout bursts the outer tube. Thus, it converts the blow-out into a slow leak, allows the driver to continue a mile or more with safety. Chief reason for the venthole: it permits equalized inflation of the two tubes...