Word: blown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when Hearst newsmen discovered that two brave young German scientists plan shortly to try to crack an atom and convert it into radiation, the doomsday story was given another twirl. "A colossal catastrophe might ensue," declared the New York American. "Will this planet, twirling peacefully a million years,* be blown to smithereens...
...staff of 'The New Yorker' has its hang-out as well as 'Life' and 'Judge' and 'Time'. It is really the backbone of a certain phase of social life. And in this crowd stage people are continually mixing. When one is forever bumping into authors, budding and full-blown, one has at least to read the book reviews in order to show the necessary 'appreciation...
...much worried, for a wonder, about the students of the National University, revolutionists to a man. The students had just blown off steam, staged a "surprise protest against Machado" in the heart of Havana's commercial section. Surprised businessmen were quietly fitting new plate glass into their shop and office windows...
...Harvard Lampoon, humorous undergraduate periodical, has once again blown itself into the public eye. The initiated know that the avowed intention of the comedy therein presented is to cause sagacious wink, but the Boston and Cambridge public have frequently found occasion to look upon the product with wide-eyed horror. The present irritation was caused by a drawing in the last issue depicting the now famous scrub women engaged in staging a Bacchanalia on the proceeds of the bonus supplied by Corliss Lamont and his associates...
...Last week a plane carrying Secretary of War. Patrick Hurley from Washington to New York for the Army-Navy game was forced down by thick fog at Edgewater Arsenal, Md. While the plane was landing, a piece of the fuselage Was blown loose, struck and gashed the .pilot's head, -momentarily stunned him. ∙Comparable rather to a marine keel-laying was the ring-laying and driving of a golden rivet at the beginning of construction on Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp.'s ZRS-4, first of the two great Navy dirigibles, last year at Akron (TIME...