Word: blowing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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With the launching of a great German offensive upon a fifty-mile front, active fighting in the West has again become a grim reality. The Central Powers, victorious at every other point, seem now to match their strength with the enemy in the hope of striking a decisive blow toward a favorable termination of the war. Yet the general military situation makes it very possible that the present movement is but a feint in the concealment of another motive...
Congress, in passing a bill allowing the Government to seize all German-owned industries in this country, has struck a decisive blow against enemy capital. Its practical advantage is manifestly great. Many of the firms making material for war purposes are German-owned; it would be hard to believe that the owners have not often tried and have been able to slow up their production. With these firms in American hands they can be run to their highest efficiency and help considerably to swell the tide of supplies that must in the end overcome Prussian power. The opportunities for spies...
...call of necessity, would indeed involve a breach of faith. We have no quarrel with the Russian people. A Japanese army, at the most, could penetrate but a few of the many miles toward offering an active opposition to the Central Powers. A Japanese invasion could only be a blow in the dark at Russia, a nation convulsed in the enormity of its own problems, certainly not an enemy of the Allied cause...
...years are coming nearer and nearer, and the new law gives us a gentle hint to do a little work; Mr. Storrow's restriction may even save us from the annual post-examination call on Mr. Cram. To make Boston deader than it is seems an unnecessary blow, especially with New York revelling practically as of yore. Still, coal must be saved and until warm weather comes our motto must be: Off with the dance, let joy be well confined...
...short of the matter is that baked beans must be preserved even if the pork law has to be changed for their benefit. For just as Milwaukee is noted for its beer, and Detroit for its Ford, so, too, Boston is known on account of the bean. Any blow at its prestige is a slap at Boston. Indeed, Daniel was cast into the lions' den for not bowing before Darius' idol; if the commissioners had erred they might have suffered similarly and as a penalty for snubbing the sacred bean they would doubtless have been cast into the Cambridge Subway...