Word: blowings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Consternation supreme reigns in Harvard Yard this week upon the startling news that two students who attended the Cambridge Institution of learning last year have discovered the error of their ways and have transferred to Yale. Harvard students met this blow with commendable level-headedness, however, and after meeting several hours behind locked doors, reported to the press that the whole thing is a dastardly Yale plot...
...hope of averting such a blow to Democratic prestige that the radio address was conceived, it was in this spirit that it was delivered, and with the average man, the Boston Herald to the contrary, in this purpose it is quite likely to succeed. DAEDALUS...
...companions, blown off the course of a Gloucester-Provincetown race, put in at Portland, Me., in the yacht Black Arrow. Said Son James: "I don't know what there was to be upset over. The Black Arrow is as sound as a church. We just had a little blow and we hove...
Morally this was indeed a blow to Dr. Müller, but the Reichsbischof, knowing perfectly well that his acts have been illegal for months, recently had them retroactively confirmed by an act of his hand-picked Church Synod which has yet to be tested in the courts...
When the mixture fumed and sputtered like a devil's cauldron, Wallace Foreman realized his error. He bellowed. Seven other men came running, hastily agreed that 9 gal. of nitroglycerin had been inadvertently manufactured. Nine ounces, they knew, was enough to blow them to bits. There was a mad rush for telephones...