Word: blown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feet, beak and the soft part around the eyes, rarely shown accurately. He spent three days getting a sketch of the comparatively common grasshopper sparrow, a hard-running, covert-loving bird. Once he lay for hours in icy water in Shinnecock Bay to catch the wing sweep of brant blown off shore by a heavy gale. The chickadee and the song sparrow are his favorite birds...
...White House had been blown up by Bonus rioters...
During the news shut-down both the Standard and Post kept staffs busy night & day writing bulletins for the office windows. Perpetual crowds filled the streets outside the offices, devouring the brief notices which told them that the White House had not been blown up; that...
...break on a rising column of air, the drops take on a positive charge of electricity, the air and lighter spray a negative charge. Drops large enough to fall against a rising air current are likely to break up and take a positive charge. Reduced in size they are blown upward again, rising less rapidly than the negative air and spray. Their charge makes them coalesce again until they are large and heavy enough to hover for an instant, then begin to drop again. As the process continues, the raindrops become heavily loaded with positive electricity, while the rising...
...found the abandoned plane, and Capt. Bertram's cigaret case and a handkerchief, on the beach near Drysdale Mission, 100 mi. northwest of Wyndham. Australian officials continued searching, dubiously. At last, one day last week, a police launch brought Bertram & Klaussmann ashore at Wyndham, nearly deranged by suffering. Blown off their course in the night the flyers had landed near Drysdale, thinking it was Melville Island. They had a few biscuits, no water. For days they tramped the bush in search of water and friendly natives, later drank the contents of the plane's radiator. On several occasions...