Word: blowings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...capital last spring. Why, he is endangering his interests for the public's good. He realized there might be International complications, congressional investigation, and the like, but the Hearst papers stand for news. And with Lucifer before the Inquisition, other editors deign to gloat. They are pained at the blow to the reputation of journalism. Mr. Hefflin speaks out, and calls Hearst a dastardly blackmailer to his face...
...happens," said Dr. Erickson to a CRIMSON reporter yesterday, "That an insignificant pawn becomes the deciding factor in the great chess game of nations; chess however is child's play compared to the complexities of Balkan politics. Because of her helplessness, her half-developed state, her strategic location, a blow at Albania shakes the entire body of Europe...
...that the country, however wet in sentiment, will unfailingly give a dry vote. What the opposition needs is a slogan that might convince citizens that the desire for disreputable indulgence is not implied in a vote for a repeal. This, with the exertion of the newspapers might very well blow the Prohibition question into enough of a bugaboo to arouse voters; for it is seen that even the loosely iconoclastic like Mencken who go berserk on the mention of liquor and moral censorship, can attract audiences until their hearers grow tired with the yelling on these questions that never before...
Only after repeatedly drinking of the cup of despair by seeing the Harvard football team give way to bigger and better foemen on alternating Saturdays have I become reconciled to the judgment of the Great Middle West that Harvard has degenerated solely into an institution of learning. The crowning blow, however, has been delivered by the Yale News. The passing of the Greek Department at Harvard brushes away our last hold on culture. We are led to believe that as Apollo had Marsvas skinned a mile, so the Business School, suckled in the years of its infancy in the Classical...
...Bureau of Mines showed that more than four parts of the gas in 10,000 of air was dangerous. To prevent disaster absolutely Chief Engineer Holland installed 84 ventilating fans in four 10 story buildings, two on each side of the Hudson. Part of them blow fresh air into the tunnel floor through vents, others suck vitiated air through ducts in the tunnel ceiling. Thus they change the tunnel air completely 42 times an hour and but 56 of the fans are needed to do so. Fire hazard is prevented by watchmen stationed every few score feet; and there...