Word: blown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...September 1937, sirens screamed and gongs clanged from nine ungainly buildings in Florida's Lake Okeechobee and Keys regions. The radio clicked out storm warnings. Citizens flung together their belongings, sped to the nearest of the nine houses. Behind reinforced concrete walls, they waited until the hurricane had blown itself out. Then, safe & sound, they went back to what was left of their homes...
...include such diverse jobs as supplying gas to Montreal and creosoting ties for U. S. railroads. Both Eastern Gas and Koppers Gas grew out of a patented coke oven invented by a German named Heinrich Koppers, who improved the method of saving the gas and other coal derivatives formerly blown away in thick smoke. His process caught the eye of Pittsburgh's late Henry Bedinger Rust, who took his ideas for exploiting the Koppers patents to the Mellon family offices...
These diplomats' months of work have been to save as much as possible of the flag of naval Peace. It was blown to tatters in their hands by the shot Japan discharged in withdrawing from the conference because her "honor" would not permit her to abide by the 5-5-3 ratio any longer (TIME, Jan. 27). The Naval Conference was seen this week to have saved for signing a scrap of a treaty...
Sole excitement came at the start of the voyage when a great, smoke-like cloud suddenly covered the entire dirigible as the four crude-oil motors started. Spectators who feared the ship was afire soon learned that the cloud was only a two-year's accumulation of dust blown from the envelope in the slip stream...
...command came straight from Publisher Hearst to stop the presses, strike it out. Meantime the Journal's panicky editors were ordered on about twelve hours' notice to add a new eight-page section to their Saturday edition, solved the problem by concocting an amusement section with cuts blown up to enormous size...