Word: blown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which stretched a ribbon of destruction across Missouri, Illinois, Indiana. In its wake were 695 dead and $16.500,000 worth of tangled, destroyed property.* Instead of transporting water, tornadoes carry chickens, small live stock, lumber, outhouses. Houses and barns in the path of a tornado are not blown down but explode. The vacuum column draws the air from around the house, the inside pressure forces the walls...
Personality v. Morality. A full-blown personality leading a lively life is the best goal for humans. If sex morality operates against such an existence, morality must_ be condemned. But "emotional energies unconfined leave people flaccid. Arbitrarily confined, they burst out with explosive energy. But when disciplined willingly and intelligently, they may provide the motive power to carry human culture and human happiness to the new high levels of the future. . . . Orderliness, obedience, conformity, chastity, monogamy, such ideals are valid only if they promote deeper and more vital values; only if they serve to bring personalities into blossom; only...
Karl von Frisch of the University of Munich believes, he said, that fish can hear, have the ability to learn. He told how he had stood beside his small aquarium, blown a whistle, scattered food to the minnows. Soon, he said, they learned what the whistle meant, would rush to the top with gaping mouths whenever it was blown. Later he procured another whistle of lower tone. He would blow this, then spank the rising fish with a glass rod. Soon they learned the meaning of the new whistle, would cower at bottom when it was blown, but still come...
...week, were getting $1,000 when they lent him to other companies, he quit work and went through bankruptcy to settle the company's suit for $200,000 damages. Directing All Quiet on the Western Front he was knocked unconscious by a piece of plaster blown from a dynamited church. He is fat, witty, a brilliant organizer. Some of his pictures: The Garden of Eden, The Racket, The Betrayal...
...pressure, although there is no actual adhesion. The ice will not remove itself. Ingeniously, the experimenters ran an air tube through the overshoe beneath the oil-holding layer. A flip of a small pump in the pilot's cockpit slightly inflates the tube, budging the ice, which is immediately blown away as the vacuum breaks...