Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blow to Mr. Green, however, was the news at week's end that United Mine Workers had signed contracts with 22 of the Harlan County, Ky. coal operators many of whom had been scheduled to stand trial for violating the Wagner Act. Mr. Green, who has been trying to sign up the operators with his rival Progressive Miners of America, charged that the quid pro quo was a "brazen and unlawful" deal arranged by Mr. Lewis under which NLRB would withdraw its charges against the operators, the Department of Justice would quash its criminal indictments. This was promptly denied...
...left hand have sinned," she said. She took a pair of scissors, went to the woodshed, stabbed at her right eyeball till she gouged it out. She took a heavy ax, put her left hand on a concrete pipe, chopped at it viciously. At the third blow it fell to the ground. Ola Harwell walked back to the house, got into...
Proper procedure: "Place the handkerchief about one and one-half inches above the tip of the nose, holding the cloth immediately above the nasal bones, at all times keeping the nostrils open, and then blow...
...Debating Council holds try-outs for regularly scheduled Yardling word-battles with other colleges. In the field of dramatics, the Dramatic Club recently had a stormy year, including a number of mix-ups with women's colleges, with whom they were trying to put on shows. The final blow was when the Hygiene Building began to take over the Dramatic Club's home, known as "Big Tree," in the building. Thus there is never a dull moment for the actors...
...more. They have forbidden it. We must be alert to what is changing around us, even though we cannot understand. They have warned us that the world has come to a sharp turn, and they say even students must be ready for the careening. It's a hard blow, because we have spent so many delightful years in our towers. It's somewhat of a joke that we, of all people, must think about security. We really are afraid. We tell each other over our sherry and vegetable soup that courage at such a time is blindness and fear...