Word: blowed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Gannett led off with a walk, Johns punched a single to left. Everybody was safe when catcher Albanese throw Lupien's bunt to third. Grondahl fanned, but Hoye forced in a run when he was hit by a pitched ball, and Soltz promptly propelled two more across with a blow through the infield. Hoye scored a moment later on a double steal...
...probably ought to come from one Greater New York station. . . . Doesn't this kind of programming cost us jack we'll never get? You should hear what our treasurer says! If he got real nasty you know what we'd do? We'd blow a tickler in his face, that's what...
...eight years the 25,000-ton French liner Lafayette shuttled travelers between the U. S. and France. In preparation for the summer tourist season, the Lafayette was last week getting an overhauling in the Havre drydock. One night a stoker, firing oil burners with a blow torch, accidentally set fire to some spilled mazut (fuel oil) in the stokehold...
Method of Northwestern's survey was to stop drivers at selected points on the streets, ask them to blow up small balloons. The breath-filled balloon was then tested for alcohol on a "drunkometer" developed by Indiana University Medical School's Dr. R. N. Harger. One driver was willing but too drunk, huffed & puffed on the balloon but could not fill it. Helplessly he turned to his wife and said: "Honey, you finish...
...Classics, suffering from a decline in the number who are fortunate enough to know the ancient languages, would receive no harm if a course were given with reading in English translation, although this certainly would be a blow to the dignity of moribund classicism. Yet this might in the end be beneficial. It would make the present low state of the classics plain even to those who occupy commanding positions in its Ivory Tower, and by dispelling false pride based on illusions of grandeur, stimulate them to new thought on how best to use the unquestionable values that are still...