Word: blowings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boiled egg for breakfast knows something of M. Kahn's difficulties, but difficulties mean nothing to him. It is his boast that any egg that can be laid he can embroider; he has tried them from ostriches' to pigeons'. The Kahn method is first to blow the egg, then to drill thousands of minute holes through the shell, to run colored threads through the holes to form the design. No thread transfixes the entire egg; every, knot and thread end is made on the inside of the shell...
...paraphernalia, were ordered by the Air Ministry last week to stop work on the largest fighting and bombing sea plane ever begun in Great Britain, a monster weapon of destruction with a cruising range of 1,300 mi. "This economy," said a spokesman sadly, "is a distinct blow to the Empire's progress. Had she proved successful, we planned to build another ship almost twice as large and correspondingly more powerful." Vickers, Ltd. will some day build a plane with which New York can be bombed from London or vice versa, for they sell to any good customer...
...blow to the jaw silenced bleeding Sir Richard as he was about to address his assailants. He listened quietly while they demanded an increase in Newfoundland's dole, "or we'll pick you up, Sir Richard, and throw you out of that third-story window! And we want more food for the needy...
...grapefruit in a paper bag.' Dr. Bainbridge knew the weight of the whole, also the average weight of each piece of his "fruit," but (he assumed) not the weight of each individual piece. So he propelled the neon atoms through the chamber with an electric force, strong enough to blow the "bag" to pieces, ionize the atoms. Two huge electromagnets created a powerful magnetic field, which, like gravity pulling the fruit to earth, defleeted the course of the ionized atoms. Dr. Bainbridge snapped a picture. The lightest isotopes, like lemons, had traveled farthest, the medium isotopes...
...blow that is injurious...