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Word: blown (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good not merely of his own country but of the world is the conviction of everyone who has followed his previous performance. It is a matter of supreme importance at the moment, when English-speaking nations are becoming more isolated as the champions of Democracy in a world 'blown about by all the winds of doctrine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: World Pleased | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

...Medical Exhibition at the new Horticultural Hall were displayed flesh-colored artificial noses and ears of an adhesive, rubber-like substance durable for two months, invented for disfigured victims of automobile accidents. The detachable ears can be washed with the rest of the face, the detachable noses can be blown, powdered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 16, 1936 | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

...side will be Mrs. Smith, wearing a corsage of orchids. She's had those same orchids every election day since her husband was state assemblyman; they must be wax. And who ever heard of Mrs. Smith at any time during the year but election day? She's probably blown up for the occasion, like the dragons in Macy's Thanksgiving parade...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE FREE COUNTRY | 11/4/1936 | See Source »

Thus boldly Franklin Roosevelt set out to ride the whirlwind which this year has blown Nebraska's party lines into the craziest political pattern in the U. S. Characteristic was the discovery of a roving New York Times correspondent who inquired last week into the political sentiments of some of Senator Norris' supporters, quickly uncovered an anti-Roosevelt Democrat, an anti-Landon Republican...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEBRASKA: Sheep and Goat | 10/19/1936 | See Source »

There life-sized dummy-policemen and dummy-pedestrians bob about on wires, horns are tooted, whistles blown to determine which horses are gentle enough to be safe under royalties, both visiting and British...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Crown: Oct. 19, 1936 | 10/19/1936 | See Source »

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