Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This moratorium was no surprise. Wall Street has expected some sort of Hungarian moratorium for months. The fact that it turned out to be only a "transfer moratorium," with pengo payments continuing to pile up in Hungary, softened the blow. But a blow it was. U. S. bankers have extended and U. S. investors hold roughly 25% of Hungary's short-term credits and bonds. On the total U. S. investment of $179,000,000 the loss or postponement of interest and sinking fund charges during 1932 will approximate...
...made two suggestions for safer football which will be carefully weighed when the Rules Committee meets in February: 1) that the kickoff tee be restored, the kickoff moved back from the 40-to the 30-yd. line; 2) that, whenever a ball carrier loses his footing, the referee shall blow his whistle immediately instead of waiting for opponents to seize or fall on the carrier...
...horse race in the world. James Nugent Crofton barked his announcement sadly last week. "There's no longer any use of our trying to kid ourselves. . . . Shortage of money has been apparent. . . . The announcement that the Mexican Government would increase taxes on gate receipts was the final blow. . . ." Agua Caliente's racing deficit since the season started a month...
...Lafayette, Ind., stupid thieves worked all night to blow open the unlocked door of a safe containing...
...fellow prisoners in Siberia, that under a rough exterior many criminals had really extraordinary qualities. He conceived that man might become noble through sin. When Raskolnikov, the young student in "Crime and Punishment," murdered two old women through a Napoleon ambition to transcend all human values at a blow his final defeat was not attributable to the sinfulness of the act, but rather to his lack of fortitude in self-justification. Dostoevsky was not irreligious. At bottom he had a primitive kind of Christianity, which thought man became great through suffering. Furthermore, since man was naturally evil and irrational, there...