Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week another possible source for planetary systems was on the astronomical horizon. Every now & then, for no apparent reason, a star seems suddenly to blow up, throwing off shells...
...these toilers are also for Peace, and at the tail-end of last week's debate Labor Party Leader Major Clement Attlee mustered practically his followers' full strength behind a motion to censure the Baldwin Cabinet on the grounds that their Rearmament program is: 1) dealing a blow to the League of Nations; 2) raising the cost of living in the United Kingdom, 3) preparing the way for an eventual new Depression more disastrous than the last. By a vote of 241 to 117 this Labor motion was defeated. Next the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin put Rearmament...
...extremely interested in your article on Professor Gropius in TIME, Feb. 8. Having been associated with the Bauhaus from its earliest days until the death blow, I still take a lively interest in the doings of its former members. I hope you'll pardon me if this leads me to take the liberty of correcting a mistake in your article: The Baby Accident had no Communistic flavor whatever, and happened in Weimar in 1921, when the trend of the Bauhaus was definitely unpolitical; the parading of the town was done by a few students only, among whom was neither...
...deputies, 350 strong, surrounded the plant, brought up machine guns, ominously set up a dressing station for expected casualties with a Red Cross flag prominently displayed. The sit-downers retaliated by arming themselves with wrenches, rolling airplanes to the windows so that their propellers could be used to blow tear gas out of the plant. They distributed drums of paint with which they threatened to fire the building. Undeterred, police called for the fire department and prepared to storm the plant if the sit-downers would not surrender. At that tense moment Dr. Towne Nylander, regional director of the National...
...Manhattanites had already read in the New York Times a condensed version of his autobiography, run in 16 installments. The newspaper version omitted many a literary anecdote, many a bludgeoning blow against Americans and such "lesser breeds without the Law." And much was omitted from the book; eclectic rather than exhaustive, it was well titled Something of Myself for My Friends Known and Unknown. Kipling was no digger of his own dust, and his book was intended as a monument, not an exhibition. But friends and enemies alike found in it something of both...