Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...case of the University vs. tutoring schools is a long, fifteen-round bout in which, for the past few years, no very decisive blows have been struck. Outside the University, Manter Hall School last year landed a light left when they sued Time Magazine for libel for saying they did ghost-writing and were awarded all of six cents. The blow was only important in so far as it established the legal position of the school in relation to the University. Yesterday, however, the University connected with a sharp right when a bureau offering a review in criminal law called...
Looking toward the future it is extremely doubtful if the University will ever be able to deal a knockout blow to the tutoring schools. But the possibility of a decision for the University is not so impossible. When instructors realize that they must organize their lectures and dole out their dismal reading lists for the "C" man as well as for the honor student, then the University will have done its part. And when this happens, then the students themselves will see that twenty gruelling hours of copying and time for re-reading could be better and more cheaply spent...
Short on inhibitions, The Primrose Path at its rosiest is all downhill and no brakes. Were all the characters as rowdy and ribald as Grandma, the play would blow the audience into the middle of next year. But the rest of the family, if unconventional, are given to normal moments of joy and sorrow. After mixing Grandma's outrageous antics with her son-in-law's gruesome suicide and her granddaughter's rocky romance, The Primrose Path fails to come off as well as it might. For, though humor and pathos make the best of friends, realism...
CHUNKING, Szechuan Province--Japanese warplanes, ranging more than 1000 miles inland, today struck their first major blow at the now Chinese capital here, pouring explosives into civilian areas and killing and wounding more than 200 civilian Chinese. There were nearly 80 planes participating in the raid which was described as the most devastating since the bombing of Canton...
...Barnard School's paper, John Sr. called a big one wrong. If Schmeling beat Joe Louis he promised to eat his hat. John ate a hat all right-a candy and cake creation. John Jr. lost no such wager, but dad's wrong guess was a blow. He said, "Did I lose prestige...