Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Joke v. Blow. Lacking though it is in humor, the Japanese Army knows that any joke can be answered by a sufficiently heavy blow. Last week the Japanese Army proper did not move, but Japanese sent 30,000 of their puppet Manchukuoan troops and Mongolian allies on a thundering raid from Chahar, northwest of Peiping, into Suiyuan. The invaders were equipped with tanks, armored cars and battle planes of Japanese manufacture. Actual news from this remote region was scant but early and Chinese-censored dispatches made world headlines thrilling to thousands of Chinese laundrymen and other expatriate Celestials: CHINESE DEFEAT...
...time of this writing there's a great array of fireworks and much merry-making over most of England. It's Guy Fawkes night. Fawkes you remember was the hapless man who in 1605 tried to blow up Parliament. I'm not sure whether this celebration is an expression of a democracy's gratitude for the failure; or whether the British people are trying to make up for the disappointment by a second-best array of fireworks. Judging by the noise the latter seems the logical solution. One young Englishman asked me if our Fourth of July was a celebration...
...Germany and Italy are allowed to resort to open intervention, and the rout of international morality is made complete, Great Britain and her satellite France are to blame. No greater blow could have been dealt the Spanish Republic, and the front of constitutional democracies in general, than the non-intervention pact which raised the ideal smoke screen behind which Hitler and Mussolini could do their work...
...influence has been an inspiring one throughout his career here and his loss is a severe blow to the School," said Joseph F. Hudnut, Dean of the School of Design, who announced the resignation Saturday...
With all of Macheth's lack of conviction the Virginia paper is trying to soften its blow by making a distinction between "athletic scholarships" and "money payments". There can be no such distinction in a world of reality. A woman can not be half a virgin...