Word: blown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...toward naked Montauk Point, the 190-ft. Mackay Radio tower at Napeague was flung to earth. Fishing craft were splintered, fishermen's shacks blown to flinders. Refugees huddled marooned in the brick-walled Montauk Manor on high ground. On Long Island's northerly finger the hurricane from the south made shambles of the shipyards of Greenport, unroofed a full movie theatre...
Eliot House, Winthrop House, and the Yard were the worst hit as far as loss of trees goes. Nine of the stately elms outside of Eliot House along Memorial Drive were prostrated, leaving a comparatively bare building. Over half of the poplars in the front circle were blown done. A scene of wreckage was the court between Gore and Standish Halls of Winthrop House, where all but three of the old willows went down. Fifteen trees in the Yard were uprooted or snapped off near the roots...
...Socialite but steadfastly Edwardian, Mrs. Hailman dominates the city park system, has a tart tongue for politicians and a tender spot for fellow artists. Several months ago she commissioned young Pittsburgh Sculptor George M. Koren to do a group for her garden. Sculptor Koren produced three earth-spurning, wind-blown nudes symbolizing Pittsburgh's three rivers: the Allegheny, Monongahela and Ohio. To his delight Three Rivers won the $2,000 Prix de Rome in sculpture last spring...
Suspicion of Cuban reserves dates back to an 1880 incident involving an unfortunate Chinese. Digging a water well in Motembo for his master, he presumably stopped for a smoke, at any rate was blown to bits. Promptly forming a company, his master drilled three 900-foot holes on the site, brought in Cuba's first gushers, each producing distillate. Geologists thought this shallow production came from a deeper and much larger reservoir, but drilling equipment was inadequate and nothing further was done about...
...help there was a waterproof, 10-inch square, 15-watt radio transmitter run by dry cells. If these gave out, a waterproof hand generator could be used. The antenna would go aloft tied to a hydrogen-inflated balloon. For the guidance of rescue ships, smaller orange balloons would be blown up, cast on the ocean waves every 15 minutes...