Word: blown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stone wedding cake, the Trophy of the Alps rose 150 ft., topped by a stone Augustus. With the centuries the Visigoths, Ostrogoths, Vandals and Huns tore the great pile apart. Later still it was converted into a fort. Louis XIV, who disliked other men's monuments, had it blown up. Seven years ago another man who also liked monuments began to put it together again...
...hard enough for those French gendarmes to unravel, but now-well, let us see what TIME has brought. ". . . Scotland Yard carefully examined the Chelsea, London flat in which the Switzes lived for many months. There they found a new touch of mystery-dozens & dozens of eggshells, carefully blown, with a neat hole in end of each." (TIME, April 2, p. 16.) Now there is a mystery that will make those French Johnnies sit back, take their hats off and scratch their heads. I'll bet those foreign crime-crackers never knew a small pinhole could make such a difference...
...been asked to make any investigation of the Switzes, their family or their friends. Just to be sure, Scotland Yard carefully examined the Chelsea, London flat in which the Switzes lived for many months. There they found a new touch of mystery-dozens & dozens of eggshells, carefully blown, with a neat hole in one end of each...
...Eldora, Iowa, Hank Schafer, 83, slipped on the ice, fractured his hip. Long ago Hank Schafer was buried alive in a coal mine. Later he lost an arm and eye when he was blown into the air by a cannon. After that he was buried alive under two tons of clay. Next he fell 30 ft. off a cliff. Still later he was thrown by a horse and dragged through a barbed-wire fence. Then he fell from a speeding bobsled, fracturing his skull. At 80, he recovered from double pneumonia. At 81, he was downed by a paralytic stroke...
...night one of them heard a dull boom from below. He knew what that meant. Someone had banked the furnace fire too heavily and a puff of exploding coal gas had blown open the door. Sleepily he stumbled down cellar, slammed the door shut, went back to bed. He did not notice that a part of the chimney pipe had also been blown...