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Word: blowed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus the basis was laid for Greater Germany to intervene later, save the Sudeten Germans from "persecution." If the Hungarians, Poles and other racial minorities in Czechoslovakia were to take similar stands and get away with them, the Republic would simply blow up-which would suit Hitler even better than having to intervene. In Budapest this week 20,000 Hungarian Nazis demonstrated, clamored "Czechoslovakia must be dismembered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CZECHOSLOVAKIA: ... Or Else! | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

Strawberries are an expensive crop, costing $1.50 a crate to grow, 17? more for inspection, packing and auctioning. They are now selling for $2.20, due chiefly to James Morrison. He wears overalls at his farmers' rallies, waves his arms and lets the wind blow through his hair. "I am the Kingfish," he says proudly, "of the berry business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Strawberry Kingfish | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

...original pump was constructed in 1764 over a 35 ft. well to accomodate students in Hollis Hall. But so many others took advantage of it that about 35 years ago it fell into the last stages of decay. Several sporadic attempts to blow it up in 1904 and 1905 did not remedy the situation and the University was finally forced to remove...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Pump Primers Initiate New Year as Water Flows from Yard Pump | 4/20/1938 | See Source »

...didn't blow up. It didn't backfire. It didn't stop dead in the middle of the street. But it did beat a 1938 Ford on a traffic light; it sped backward up a hill at 35 miles an hour; and it hit 25 in five seconds from a dead start half-way up the same hill...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Steam Car Modeled After Stanley Steamer Makes Auspicious Debut | 4/20/1938 | See Source »

Besides Lupien, catcher Paul Doyle and second baseman Dave Shean garnered three hits apiece. Shortstop Dick Grondahl drove out two base knocks in three attempts, and all the other Mitchellmen, even the light-hitting Curtiss, get one safe blow, except Rud Hoye. Centerfielder Gannett and left-fielder Jo Jo Soltz smacked doubles. Two of Doyle's hits were two-base affairs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nine Opens League Season With 12-7 Penn Win | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

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