Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Detroit News last week mixed 40 Ibs. of perfume oil with their printer's ink. The heady scent drifted out of the press room and into editorial and advertising offices, where it lingered lovingly on staffers' clothes and hair. The News ran its air-conditioning system full-blast but the smell hung on for two days. The disenchanted advertising manager grumped: "This newspaper plant smells like a bawdy house. I'm afraid to go home tonight...
Sources close to the plotters at MIT gave the CRIMSON a step-by-step account of the plot that might have interrupted the Harvard-Yale game with a surprise blast directly after the opening kick...
Brighton police and the dean of MIT have also asserted that the extent of the damage from the possible blast has been greatly exaggerated...
...plotters system for firing the blast was simple. One of them, stationed behind the grandstand, was assigned to set off the charge by use of batteries. He was to be signalled by two accomplices, who were stationed in the wooden bleachers...
...sticks of dynamite near the Weeks Memorial Bridge early Saturday is on his way home to Texas, his friends reported last night. Acquaintances of Leigh Cross '51, whose connections with the University were severed last week, named him as the man who set off the blast...