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Word: blowed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weakness of the anti-oath faction which had attempted to push the bill through to a third reading yesterday came as an unexpected blow to labor, church, and educational leaders who have pressed for repeal during the Curley law's four years of existence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TEACHERS OATH REPEAL VOTED DOWN IN HOUSE | 2/17/1939 | See Source »

Vote Is Surprise Blow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TEACHERS OATH REPEAL VOTED DOWN IN HOUSE | 2/17/1939 | See Source »

Before the reign of Hitler there were 50,000 physicians in Germany, of whom 6,500 were Jewish or part-Jewish. Since 1933 "non-Aryan" doctors have been gradually pushed out of practice. Crowning blow came last October, when licenses of all Jewish physicians were revoked, and only a few special temporary permits were granted for practice in Jewish communities. Although Germany now faces a shortage of trained physicians and has been compelled to reduce the period of medical education by two full years, more than one-half of the ostracized Jewish physicians still remain in Germany, helpless and impoverished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Refugee Physicians | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

Truly the Dartmouth Outing has only gained by the spiriting away of its spirit license. It is unfortunate that this will not prevent all inebriation; man's baser instincts invariably find expression in some subversive manner. Nevertheless, a body blow has been struck for right and temperance. All clean livers should rejoice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NO FIREWATER | 2/11/1939 | See Source »

...specially made precision instruments with which Goudy made the matrices for his type; his stock of 3,000 to 4,000 matrices. Twenty of his most-famed type faces (he has designed 107)* never having been cast, can never be reproduced. Said 73-year-old Frederic Goudy: "A body blow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 6, 1939 | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

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