Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time had come, decided the Democratic Presidential nominee last week, to break his silence on the Red issue, simultaneously strike a hard blow at his prime journalistic foe. A new Hearst campaign against him, he learned, was to begin on Sunday. Few hours after his return to the White House from Harvard on Saturday, the President issued a strategic statement over the signature of his Assistant Secretary Stephen Early...
...political make-up was that he dressed exceedingly well, wore a different suit each day with harmonizing shirts, socks and neckties, setting off his handsome blue eyes. Oldster Moses referred to him acidly as "Little Boy Blue." Governor Bridges retorted that if Mr. Moses liked he would blow his horn but would not be found sleeping under any haystacks...
Down next morning at 6:15 a. m. went the handles of the detonators and afternoon papers throughout the world shrieked such page-wide headlines as: COMMUNISTS BLOW UP ALCÁZAR! - NEARLY ALL DEFENDERS FEARED DEAD! An entire trainload of additional Red militia had arrived from Madrid to help the Toledo Militia swarm in over the ruins. To make the assault safer Red artillery poured a 15-minute barrage into the clouds of dust and smoke rising over the Alcázar. Then 1,500 militia led by four militia girls surged forward expecting merely to wade in White...
...grandnephew of Matthew Arnold. His most recent endeavors have been a tour of industrial and academic laboratories in Britain (Science & Social Needs), an examination of Science in Russia (A Scientist Among the Soviets), two popularizations written with a collaborator (Simple Science and More Simple Science}, a detailed blow-up of Nazi race theory (His Europeans), in which he printed pictures of individuals from various countries, challenged his readers to spot their nationalities...
...conference was held in London in 1924. Engineer Dunlop did not anticipate then that the third such conference would meet in Washington and that the U. S. Secretary of State would find it appropriate to urge the engineers of the world not to participate again in movements to blow the world to pieces in another great...