Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which he paid 5? as the Social Security tax. For his pension, he claimed 32% of his total wages since the plan went into effect. This figures out as 17?, or a profit of 12?. Asking for it in a "lump sum," Motorman Ackerman announced: "I'll blow it on my friends...
...Moore with an emphasis which suggested it took effort to decline to believe. "I decline to believe," vehemently continued the Acting Secretary of State, "that any such adventure in suicide is imminent! On the contrary, I am convinced that the leaders of those nations, knowing what a perhaps fatal blow another extensive war would be to the fabric of European civilization, will find some common-sense method of adjusting all controversies. Of course all the world would be glad to see the civil strife in Spain wholly localized...
...burgomaster ever omits to lecture a Dutch couple on this occasion severely and at great length, pointing out that marriage is no bed of roses, duty comes before pleasure, wealth is the visible reward of industrious virtue, and honesty the inescapable policy. This Dutch-uncle lecture, and the smart blow of the Burgomaster's gavel with which he knocked the pair down to each other, Juliana & Bernhard bore with placid disregard of how much time was passing, but in the Great Church across the street impatience grew...
This provoked several reactions. New York's Senator Royal Samuel Copeland, who loves to blow off steam on airplane safety but rarely does anything about it, puffed as usual, promised an investigation. The Department of Commerce called a "private" conference of airline operators and Federal officials...
...liberal tendencies might cause no great effect on the educational life of the state university but the establishment of precedent by the displacement of a liberal president of a supposedly-liberal university through the whim of the supposedly-progressive governor of that state would be a telling blow to educational freedom in America...