Word: blowers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When Tom Blower looks at the sea, every wave seems to be flinging a challenge at him. In 1937 Tom, who is a strapping Nottingham mill hand, answered by swimming the English Channel in 13 hours 29 minutes, the fourth best time on record. That was not enough for Tom. No man had ever swum the Irish Sea; he decided to be the first...
...again. Conditions were wretched: all night there were thunderstorms with hail and wind that whipped up four-foot waves; at dawn there were thick, swirling mists so that his escorts in motor boats sometimes lost sight of him. Fifteen hours and 25 minutes after he had left Donaghadee, Tom Blower plodded up the beach in a misty little cove five miles from the Scottish village of Port Patrick. He looked back over his shoulder and said: "You bastard, I've conquered...
...drank it straight). The A.M.A. considered the loss (if damages) a great moral victory. Soon afterward, when Fishbein became editor, he was encouraged to begin beating the bushes. Some of the odd game he flushed: a healer named Percival Lemon Clark, who attacked all diseases with a "sanatology blower" that was supposed to "dry clean the entire [internal] system"; a California dentist who called himself Painless Parker (use of the word "painless" was forbidden by law); a jack of all diseases named John Paul Fernel, who designed a "sleeping brassiere," for reducing oversized busts...
Head of Menace was about the last of his academic pictures. (Wrote he: "The finish is sufficiently gloomy. . . .") His Blowing out a Candle had a more elusive humor-the blower is blown out along with the candle. His miserly Old Man Figuring seems to be plucking out sums like a harpist. Sometimes his stuff looks like-matchstick people that a U.S. Indian might have scratched on a rock. His Witch with a Comb would be an innocuous little old woman-in spite of her shoe-button eyes-except that her hands are arrows pointing straight down to the ground...
...Stewart-Warner Corp. has developed a gasoline-burner the size of a waste basket, capable of generating enough heat for a 20-room house. Based on the hot-air heater now used in planes, the unit can be hung from attic rafters, with a blower to distribute the hot air by means of ducts in the walls and registers in each room. Stewart-Warner has not announced the cost of such a central heater but estimates that a one-room unit will cost $20 to $30. It also estimates that fuel costs will be no higher than those...