Word: blown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boys and girls and 40 teachers still in the spreading story-and-a-half high-school wing. They would have been dismissed in ten minutes, when something, almost certainly natural gas from the bowels of the earth, exploded. Four hundred and fifty-five students and teachers were instantly blown, crushed, torn to death...
...added an ironic note by revealing that up to this January it had sold the New London School Board a natural gas mixed with a tell-tale odorant that might have prevented the blast. But the most ironic product of the tragedy was right on top of the wreckage. Blown out of the ruined building was a section of blackboard on which someone had scrawled: "Oil and natural gas are East Texas' greatest mineral blessings. Without them this school would not be here, and none of us would be here learning our lessons...
Equipped with a serious, timely theme, a full-blown performance by Actor Baur, for whom madmen and the like are a specialty, The Golem does not aim to be a horror picture. Nonetheless, ably directed, festooned with English subtitles, its principal message for cinemaddicts who remember its predecessor will be that old Golems are the best Golems. Good shot: Ru dolph trying to engage the Golem in talk, raging when the statue fails to answer...
Hardly had the opening whistle blown when Austie Harding converted a pass from Captain George Ford to start the scoring. For the rest of this period and most of the middle session Dartmouth displayed a brand of hockey reminiscent of their earlier encounter with the Crimson, when the Harvard skaters barley...
...right in her homes. I haven't got my gas mask yet-I'm not sure that I wouldn't rather be gassed right off and have it over with. But you cannot feel comfortable when you know that your capital city might be blown to bits any hour of the day or night and everyone in it gassed...