Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attorney rehearsed both arguments, stoutly added that the State had discharged its Constitutional obligation to Negroes by chartering Lincoln as a "University" in 1921. If Negroes wanted to study law, said they, Lincoln should teach it. NAACP attorneys demanded to know how the State of Missouri could blow hot by claiming that its black and white colleges were equal, blow cold by allowing its University to reject Lincoln credits. That Lincoln was itself a "University" they denied, recalling that the $500,000 granted it to set up graduate schools had been thrown out as unconstitutional by Missouri's Supreme...
...pronounced Zhooee), who has been settling strikes by jailing the employers until they yielded (TIME, July 13), last week had something new and hard on his hands. Highly excitable Spanish syndicalists fell to quarreling with the Socialist building trade-unions, decided that the only thing to do was to blow up water mains. With a will, syndicalists fell to this work and soon had blown up so many mains that half the residential buildings in Madrid were without water...
...paunchy onetime Sedalia lawyer, who served a term in the Missouri Senate before landing his Federal job, this was a blow indeed. In private life his income was never supposed to be more than $5,000 a year. After receiving his big fee, he moved to Virginia, has since spent most...
...snaps, a battleship's armor plate yields. By building a machine which hits a piece of metal with the whack of a bullet traveling 1,000 ft. per sec., H. C. Mann of Watertown (Mass.) Arsenal discovered that when a piece of metal is struck a very strong blow, its molecules release some of their potential energy, help shatter themselves. Mr. Mann's machine consists of a brace to hold the test metal and a flywheel with a bump on its rim. A motor works the fly wheel up to a rim speed of 680 m.p.h. at which...
...baby he lived in the forest that was cut down in order that Kravnik might be. The Albanian is still just an untamed peasant at heart, but he has had a wonderful chemical training. In fact, he has discovered a new high explosive with which he plans to blow up Kravnik building by building. To the love-sharpened eyes of Lisa his little scheme is soon apparent, but no one else suspects him, even after he has blown up two of Kravnik's prize landmarks. In spite of Lisa's pleas, he firmly intends to go on from...