Word: blown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the wind playing the biggest part in the game, championship hopes of the Harvard Varsity soccer team were blown away last Saturday in a 1 to 1 deadlock with Brown. Although the play of the Crimson appeared superior to that of Brown, they were prevented by the gale from sinking more than one shot in the not, which G.F. Stork '33, left inside, accounted...
...died. There as an Old Guardsman he has served continuously since. Twice he defeated the late Thomas Taggart, Indiana's Democratic boss, to hold his seat. For political support he has shrewdly ridden every popular wind, from the Anti-Saloon League to the Ku Klux Klan which has blown over the Indiana electorate. A fixture at most G. O. P. national conventions since 1912, he passively hoped for the presidential nomination in 1920 and again in 1924, was Indiana's favorite son against Herbert Hoover...
...this new machine for making light bulbs. We know of an improved machine which makes a large quantity of bulbs but it surely does not replace any such number of men as you speak of in your paragraph, although it is true that if the bulbs had to be blown by hand as they were 25 or 30 years ago, it would require a great many...
Meanwhile Havana was ominously quiet. One Jose Davila Valdez, with both his arms blown off, went on trial before a military court charged with setting off the bomb that maimed him. On his return from another military trial. Socialite Ignacio Mendoza de la Torre slipped from his guards, escaped...
...about. When one of his agents got hold of a letter written by Spanish Minister de Lôme in which President McKinley was called "a pothouse politician, catering to the rabble," Rubens published the letter, forced de Lôme's resignation. Rubens thinks the Maine was blown up by the Spaniards, admits it was probably not "an official act," but suspects that the disgruntled Spanish General "Butcher" Weyler hoped it would happen...