Word: blown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fountains of white spray rose round the little target-ship, but when the smoke cleared, the Torrens still rode at anchor. Australia's navy tried again and yet again until Rear Admiral E. R. G. R. Evans judged that enough of the Commonwealth's money had been blown away, sent a motor launch bobbing over the waves to sink the Torrens with a prosaic charge of good, reliable dynamite...
...along the dirt road leading from the nearby town of Athens came the whistles and bells of ambulances, police cars, special State mine-relief cars which had been stationed throughout the coal area. Underground the mine channels were strewn with debris. A shattered 12-ton hauling locomotive had been blown 50 ft. from where it stood. Farther along the track, a 3,000-lb. steel car had flown 35 ft. The bodies of 79 dead men lay scattered about, maimed by the explosion or torture-twisted by the gas. Nevertheless, 20 live men were found huddled in a pocket...
Died. William R. Jackson, 36, of Madison, Ill., American Consul in Havana, his wife, Lillian, and John Tillotson Wainwright, 32, of Manhattan, Vice Consul in Matanzas; by drowning in Matanzas Bay, Cuba. Mrs. Jackson was blown from a cliff; Mr. Jackson attempted to rescue her; Mr. Wainwright attempted to rescue both...
...effort to come through. Dartmouth came closer to succeeding, but even at that Yale, with Booth in action, cannot be said to be very far from a score no matter where the ball is. The little Elis' dancing dervish is never safe until after the whistle has blown...
Twice the Gloucester fire-whistle had blown five long blasts in the morning, meaning that because the wind was light there would be no race that day. Since the day Gertrude L. Thebaud won the first race (TIME, Oct. 20), the fishing schooners had planned often to race, but accidents, repairs and bad weather put them off. Finally last week came a short, silvered sea and a nor'wester of 20 knots...