Word: blowings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mayor LaGuardia of New York celebrated the first birthday party of that lustily kicking baby, the Progressive Party, by dealing a typically LaGuardian blow right in the spot where the United States should feel of most. In his radio address this Mayor made the perennially startling statement that the only practical way out of the country's present economic difficulties is to amend the Constitution...
Newshawks were assigned to the French Destroyer Foudroyant, bucking and wallowing through the gale. Since no destroyer could keep up speed in such a blow, the Normandie, designed as the world's fastest liner with a speed of 32 knots plus, soon vanished from the Foudroyant's sight, planned to cruise to the Azores, returning for her maiden voyage from Havre to Manhattan...
Patent No. 2,000,000 is for an "improvement for pneumatic tires for railroad cars."* Inventor Ledwinka thinks very little of it. Said he: ''Rubber at high speeds builds up a tremendous heat, enough to blow out the tube, or in solid tires to melt them internally. We were forced recently to replace pneumatic tires with metal wheels on a train we shipped to Texas." Budd Co. will develop his railroad tire, said he, "to meet competition...
...condition forever. He shows that the Second Law is, after all, only a statistical law, a mountainous piling up of probability. There is no reason why, sometime, a number of air molecules rushing helter-skelter about a room should not -just by accident-rush into a toy balloon and blow it up. It does not happen because it is too improbable. But the infinity of Time gives the most fantastic improbabilities a chance to happen. Thus, in a featureless Universe existing in infinite Time, it should eventually happen- just by chance-that organized bundles of energy take form, features take...
World-weary old gentlemen about to blow out their brains do not as a rule leave their horses to little girls who are delivering a steak. Champion racehorses are not apt to be raffled off for a shilling ticket...