Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...followed by further hostilities, it is hard to call the bombardment by an pleasanter name than an act of war. If it was this, President Roosevelt was bound to apply the Neutrality Act against the attacking power. Such action on his part would have dealt a heavy blow at German transatlantic shipping, and Mr. Hull evidently feared to go this far. He preferred to regard it as an international "spanking" similar to a naval attack on Venezuela by Britain, Germany, and Italy...
...regular Ford employes who were on their way to work. The union men called them 'scabs and cursed and taunted them. A Negro who works in the foundry was goaded and cursed so viciously by one organizer that he turned and struck him. That was the first blow struck...
...Constitution's history, as Mr. Hendrick reads it, is "from Nationalism to Nationalism." In 1787 the Founding Fathers compromised on a nationalistic form that was a body-blow to the Jeffersonians, State Righters, disbelievers in a strong central government. Today the Constitution is again the instrument of aroused Nationalism. "The new American government now in process of formation . . . really amounts to an attempt to create a new American world. . . . What may fairly be said is that the five decisions rendered [by the Supreme Court] on April 12, 1937, create a new United States...
...opinion in the two countries, the only limits to their actions are the expense of capturing Madrid and pushing the Loyalists into the sea, and the value they place on the friendship of a rearmed England. Statements to the press indicate that Franco will get aid for one smashing blow before he is permitted by his mentors to sit down to a bargaining table...
Faith in the extreme short stroke as rowed by the Washington crews, which has been increasing each time there has been regatta on the Charles, got a slight blow in the big race of the day, as both the Elis and Princeton led Cornell's effortless-looking eight across the finish line...