Word: blows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...report from Tokyo states that the Soviet Government has threatened to blow up the Japanese cruiser Nisshin, now in Vladivostok harbor, unless her captain stops transmitting wireless messages to Japanese merchants...
...short of Piggly Wiggly, the episode is not without humor. Mr. Saunders was evidently quite serious when he declared that he would never permit his stock to be traded in upon the Stock Exchange. As the financial editor of The New York Times declared, " This is a body blow, but the Stock Exchange will recover from it." Commenting upon the speed with which the authorities struck Piggly Wiggly from the Stock Exchange list, the latter authority also remarks, "Necessary discipline of the kind always suggests the query, exactly how such exigencies would be met, with Stock Exchange procedure either dictated...
Zionism: The primary elections to the Electoral College in Palestine resulted in the seating of 126 Moslems, 93 Jews, 22 Christians, 8 from other sects. The Arabs boycotted the election. Non-Jewish groups have a majority of 63-a blow to Zionism...
...Beware the wandering horse, that he shall not take fright as you pass him by. Do not explode an exhaust blow at him. Go soothingly...
...from the West Indies sailing for Rhode Island. Only the boldest, hairy-chested sailors may apply to man these ships. On the smaller fry, motor-boats that steal out at the whisper of a radio, there is a place for hard, ham-fisted nondescripts who can plant a heavy blow and shoot a sawed-off shotgun. Gunmen out of work will find employment here, for close encounters are frequent. It is a glamorous life, full of the very smoke and reek which fired a Captain Singleton or the famous Kidd himself...