Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...early work dealt a heavy blow to the old wives' injunction, "feed a cold and starve a fever." He found that as body temperature rises above normal (fever), the rate of metabolism goes up rapidly; thus more rather than less fuel (food) is needed. During World War II, as a Navy captain, he put his knowledge to work by helping to develop the airman's "G-suit" and electrically heated clothing. At the moment, as head of the Physiology Department at Cornell Medical College, he is trying to find out why women who wear open-toed shoes...
...total box-office take in the United Kingdom, thus cut the dollar drain on Britain by about $20,000,000. On the same production basis, he might send enough top pictures to the U.S. to step his profits up to $18,000,000. This would be a blow to Hollywood. But Rankmen bumptiously predict that within five years they will be digging up $50,000,000 in Hollywood's acre, and cutting deeper into its take in Britain. This would certainly shake Hollywood, as well as make Rank's movies a big source of dollar exchange in Britain...
...nightcap, the Varsity hopped on Bill Callagy, the Indians' small and excitable right-hander, for two runs in each of the first two innings. Walt Coulson's triple to right-center was the principle blow in the first, and Callagy's wildness, an error by his brother John, the Green shortstop, and Jack Forte's single to center figured in the second pair of scores...
...think this United Nations is an academic proposition that will either peterout or blow up." Smith shrugged...
...Freshman game, both sides got a pair of tainted runs in the first. Three walks and one of Myles Huntington's two singles produced a third marker for the Crimson in the second inning and gave pitcher Johnny Hansen a slim lead, which he held until Nadherny's big blow...