Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French actress who recognizes Mrs. Simpson and tries to Kodak her gets a blow from the British bodyguard knocking her camera from her hand, her hat from her head. The Buick speeds in a westward zigzag around Paris, trying to throw newshawks off the chase. When Mrs. Simpson reaches Blois for the night the United Press correspondent blocks her Buick in the garage with his car, which he locks, and feels safe in dozing off in bed. But the Buick and Mrs. Simpson extricate themselves, speed on. She buys a French newspaper with the headline "King's abdication seems...
...believe, and instruct all my service men, that skis should be cleaned down to the bare wood, which must be absolutely dry. Then after several applications of oil have been absorbed. Klister should be burned in with a blow torch. This completes the base and the ski is ready...
King Edward's abdication, although not unexpected, comes as a blow to a sympathetic world, which had hoped that some other solution to the problem could have been found. The days when the divine right of kings was an unquestioned maxim have passed, but it is unfortunate that the stage has been reached when a monarch's private life is subject to regulation by a Cabinet of Ministers...
...blow was hard for the politically-minded ladies to take, and they are still recovering. But their ranks are by no means broken. Speaking to a friend from New York last week one of them said: "That's what 'the Valley' did to us. Well, do you know what we're all going to do now? We're going to give up our social service work...
...still on the job, Dr. Hess aimed his recorders at the exploding star Nova Hercules (TIME, Dec. 31, 1934) to see whether, as some cosmologists had suggested, such stellar blow-ups could be a source of cosmic rays. He did detect a slight increase in cosmic ray intensity from the direction of the nova, but too small to be of definite significance...