Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Germany further claimed, last week, another submarine blow to the Royal Navy: a cruiser either of the London (9,750-ton) class or the Dorsetshire or Norfolk (9,925 tons). The alleged striker: Lieut. Günther Prien, 31, Hero of Scapa Flow...
...Royalist Xavier Vallat applauded the War Minister's report of France's part in the conflict, cheered when he warned that should the "enemy Führer" order the bombing of French cities (as has recently been threatened by the German radio), the French "will return blow for blow...
...that his church has "a prestige among the people of Alaska which is not enjoyed by the other communions." He plans to return to Alaska in January, to be among the Indians whose faith he admires. They will creep to church on hands & knees, against bitter winds which would blow a man down. "White people," says Bishop Rowe, "make me a little tired. They are ready to take everything, and give nothing...
...blow 'er nose...
...first. It has been recognized from the beginning that there were two more or less distinct issues involved. The long-run problem of flexibility in the system of appointments was debated and settled in spirited faculty meetings featured by ample journalistic spreads. But the immediate problem of the blow to Harvard's teaching by the dismissal of several assistant professors last June is at present being argued in undercover negotiations between individual departments and the Administration...