Word: blowings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...referee stopped the contest in the third round, after Wells had gone down for a count of seven from a hard blow on the chin dealt him by the Crimson boxer...
Determined to take revenge on the team that dealt the first serious blow to Harvard's hopes in the Quadrangular League last month, the Varsity pucksters will enter the Arena at 8.30 o'clock tonight against a Princeton team equally determined to take the series they have already half...
...rare privilege of watching a battle, and it may prove to be a most important battle. From myself to the lowest soldier in my army, we are all ready to fight desperately. Every service has been fully prepared-food, water, munitions, animals and men-to give a smashing blow, a blow that you can follow with your own eyes. BUT, in return, you must observe strict discipline, you must consider yourselves my own soldiers. Not one word of all this is to be written until the battle ends." Right in front of the Marshal's headquarters stood the powerful...
...single Minister distinct from the Prime Minister. A parliamentary stickler, Sir Austen argued against this private bill which thereupon was withdrawn; argued for a similar reform by the Government, thus associating himself with His Majesty's Government in debate. Yet in so doing Sir Austen delivered the maximum blow to "Bumbler Baldwin." After Sir Austen resumed his seat, the House of Commons lobbies heard for the first time serious talk that the long British political reign of Squire Baldwin, famed "archtype of John Bull," could be considered as drawing to its close...
...classes the professor brooks no coughing, shuffling or other disturbance. At the first noise he will call time out for students "with no nervous control" to cough, sneeze, sniffle, blow noses or leave the room. Afternoons he delights in tramping through the stacks of Widener Library, knocking off all feet which he finds on desks...