Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last night this little scoop of the "New Yorker" received a damaging blow in the form of a complete denial from M. Bryce Leggett '38, band manager. "The drum is in A number 1 condition," he announced...
...comprising the 8th Route Army of Nanking won two great battles last week in Shansi Province!" announced Chin. "They captured an entire Japanese battalion, including the commander, 60 truckloads of ammunition and one heavy, mounted gun with 2,000 projectiles. The Japanese lines crumbled under the swift, surprising blow ! More than 1,000 Japanese were killed and 10,000 Mongol and Japanese troops were disarmed. In the second battle our Communist troops penetrated clear to the rear of the Japanese lines by employing 'flying tactics' we used to use against Nanking...
...died, having known practically everybody and dabbled in everything, as recently as 1933. Tall, active, heavily-built, deeply bearded, John Jay Chapman had such a drastic sense of personal justice that he voluntarily burned his left hand (so badly that it had to be amputated) to expiate a blow he had struck a friend. His consciousness of civic responsibility was so strong that he went from Manhattan to Coatesville, Pa., on the anniversary of a lynching there, to conduct a public prayer meeting and so assuage his soul...
...Blow Ye Winds (by Valentine Davies; Arthur Hopkins, producer) does little for the national honor. Producer Hopkins, who has had scant success for nearly a decade, perennially mourns the death of the theatre, blames the critics and the cinema, but returns to the stage with admirable perseverance. Along with scores of producing colleagues, he has recently seemed to suffer from script-trouble. In the opinion of most observers, Blow Ye Winds is another symptom...
Varsity soccer hopes received a blow at practice yesterday when Captain and starting fullback Richard G. P. Powell '88 wrenched his left knee. An old ailment recurrence, the injury will put the Crimson leader on the sideline for ten days doctors said...