Word: blown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pottsville, Pa., John Wincavage, miner, was blown to pieces when the warmth of his body exploded a charge of dynamite in his pocket...
...Jersey's refinery at Linden, N. J., smelled escaping naphtha gas. Before they could telephone a report to the office, something exploded. The air around the building flared and roared. Long blue flames waved out the windows. Men on the ground were knocked flat. Others were blown from roofs and scaffoldings 200 feet away. Flaming men with clothes and flesh in tatters blindly staggered out of the building, ran screaming off into a fence surrounding the reservation, collapsed in the snow. In a few minutes the fire was out. Casualties: eleven killed; 54 hospitalized. Probable cause: naphtha gas, leaking...
...cannot know how often in the Georgian he has spilled the coffee of the head of the Classical Department, or that the man whose hat has just blown off is Professor Whitehead...