Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When bespectacled, downright Republican Frank Dwight Fitzgerald upset pious Democrat Frank Murphy in Michigan's gubernatorial election last November, he dealt a sad blow to New Deal pride. After turning out the man who turned him out in 1936, Governor Fitzgerald set about undoing (mainly by budgetary starvation) much of Mr. Murphy's Little New Deal. Last week a prevailing virus gave a new turn to Michigan politics...
...blow at the interference by members of the University faculty in the recent labor trouble was struck yesterday by the Alumni Bulletin in its lead editorial...
LONDON--Great Britain tonight called upon France, Soviet Russia and Poland to sign a four-power pact against Chancellor Adolf Hitler, whose German armies were reported moving toward the Lithuanian frontier, perhaps for a quick blow at Memel...
...mere fact that the over-popularizing of a subject results in a wide detour from scientific truth is not the most harmful effect of teaching which aims primarily to please the student, declared Zimmerman. The degeneration of instruction into a popularity contest strikes a fatal blow at scientific treatment of a subject, based on historical perspective...
...some fantastically huge hobo jungle. Only a few refugees have roofs over their heads; the great majority dig holes in the sand and cover themselves with dirty sheets, blankets or coats they managed to carry out with them. Many sleep in the open, rain or shine. Icy sea winds blow the sand continually. Most of the refugees have developed conjunctivitis. Fuel in the large camps is scarce. Cooking is done exclusively in tin cans. At one camp men and women at first stood in line all day waiting to get a little water from a small faucet. At another...