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Word: blowed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blow made premature world headlines as a "slap in the face," but it was a box on the ear, and internal bleeding began between the layers of the left eardrum. A blood clot formed, which caused the eardrum to burst, and at latest reports Commander Bower was said by the doctors to be in a "serious condition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Anti-Semitic | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

...Laborite, who is a London-born Jew, took this as an anti-Semitic remark, hurled himself over to the Conservative side of the House and delivered the blow with his open hand, technically an "assault"-which is almost unprecedented in the Mother of Parliaments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Anti-Semitic | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

While the House angrily roared at Laborite Shinwell: "Get out! Get out!" the commander folded his arms and stared the little Jew down. The commander then apologized for having said "Go back to Poland"; Mr. Shinwell apologized for his blow; and not until four days afterward was it found that damage had been done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Anti-Semitic | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

...BLOW FOR A LANDING-Ben Lucien Burman-Houghton Mifflin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Jug Genius | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

...readers were not surprised that Ben Burman's novels (Mississippi, Steamboat Round the Bend) did not come up to Huckleberry Finn; surprising was the fact that Author Burman should find as much good old-time stuff as he has. His best find yet, the shanty-boat hero of Blow for a Landing, though by no means as much of a fellow as Huck Finn, is at least of the breed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Jug Genius | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

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