Word: blasting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...back to the elmbowered streets of New Haven the scalp of John Harvard. Anyone who knows the Bulldog of old knows that he is a fighter; that the words of the prophets are likely to be violently upset, and that the game is not won till the final shrill blast of the whistle...
...supposed that the Mont Blanc carried a huge amount of the new explosive, trinitrotuluol, T.N.T., a glistening pale-yellow powder, as potent as nitroglycerine, though safer to handle. Moreover, the situation of the ship in the half-mile-wide Narrows, between two rising shores, seems to have caused the blast to rake the city with peculiar effectiveness...
...front, but by the civilian population at home. It is a direct effort by the rank and file of the people to help win the war. Its success depends on cooperation. All the organization developed by the first Liberty Loan will be brought into play again, as artillery to blast the way. Every hamlet and town in this country must be reached before the artillery preparation is complete. Hard behind it, marching in the barrage of shells, will come the civilian infantry, consisting of every income-earning citizen of the United States, fighting with the weapon of economy and assisted...
...month, Harvard excludes Mrs. Skeffington, the Boston Herald relates the incident on its front page with the statement that "it was generally understood among the students that the action of the College authorities was taken because of Mrs. Skeffington's supposed anti-British sentiments." There was also a foul blast from another Boston sheet to the effect that Harvard suppresses the truth. If Mrs. Skeffington had been allowed to speak in Emerson Hall it is fairly certain that the newspapers would have chronicled that simple fact without any hint of the sentiments of the College authorities...
...Wars in the future are likely to become more rather than less barbarous, and mankind must either lose its civilization in the blast of war or contrive some means of stopping it," President Lowell remarked at a dinner at the Congress Hotel, Chicago, Ill., Saturday evening, held by a committee of 70 for the stablishment of a state organization of the League to Enforce Peace. The object of the dinner was "to consider a program for a permanent league of nations to become effective at the end of the present war." President Lowell will return to Cambridge today...