Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from each of the nine provinces crowded into Ottawa's Château Laurier for an executive meeting of the National Liberal Federation. Before them, Leader St. Laurent shook off some of his reserve. "Our opponents will huff and they will puff," he said, "but . . . they will not blow this country off the course which our party and its leaders have...
...news was an injury to Ray Frankman and another to Chip Arp. Both were top men with foils. A heavy blow knocked Frankman's sword out of his hand last week, and pulled a finger tendon at the same time...
Jean Arp is a sculptor who hates almost all sculpture except his own. "Especially," he once complained, "these naked men, women & children in stone or bronze . . . who untiringly dance, chase butterflies, shoot arrows, hold out apples, blow the flute, are the perfect expression of a mad world. These mad figures must no longer sully nature...
Porter's way of life probably equipped him for surmounting the blow that abruptly cut short his pursuit of fun. There had always been method of a sort in his sportiveness. Porter himself once said: "I am spending my life escaping boredom, not because I'm bored, but because I don't want to be." He has always arranged his days with a whim of iron, and he refuses to be bored for as long as 15 minutes at a time. Such a schedule requires a certain ruthlessness, and Porter's Broadway associates and friends have...
...injustices remain, however, but they are all possible to remedy. First the poetry room has been made inaccessible to all women. This is a blow not only to Radcliffe undergraduates but to the graduate students and to women visitors, who, for example, might want to hear the records of poets reciting. Here there are no equal but separate facilities provided, and nothing in the material warrants this limitation to Harvard undergraduates. Second, though the Radcliffe library may be stocked will all the requisite books this fact does not insure that the girls are adequately supplied, because our girlish system allows...