Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...super-efficient bureaucracy of History 1 staggered under a crushing blow yesterday morning at Memorial Hall, when next week's "C" section test was accidentally distributed to the conference groups...
...keynoter at a national convention is the man who makes the opening speech. His job is to blow a fanfare loud enough to drown out all the sour notes. The man the Republican National Committee picked last week as keynoter for the Philadelphia Convention was 220-lb., 6-ft. 3 in. Governor Harold Edward Stassen of Minnesota. He had one pre-eminent qualification for the job: he was not a Presidential candidate. Only 33 (35 is the minimum for President), he is not old enough...
...moment a dull cloud of misunderstanding hovers over us. But clouds blow away before a clear breeze from the upper skies. If some leader of a political party, some candidate for the presidency, had the courage of Bishop Lawrence to utter plain truths, the cloud would disperse and thousands would leap to his call...
Recent blasts from the "Daily Princetonian" show that its new board of editor is adopting a more wide-awake attitude toward age-old problems down at Nassau. First came a body blow at a snobbish and impractical club system, and along with it an appeal for a House Plan like Harvard's and Yale's. The late President Wilson gave the college a chance for such an arrangement years ago, but Princetonian sentiment quickly smothered the whole idea...
...them were already doing. Loyal Norse airmen, hearing of the Germans' approach, managed to spirit half of Norway's 100 military planes away to secret fields (frozen lakes). Loyal Norse soldiers, as they fell away from the shores of Oslo Fjord, man aged to blow up Selbergross Dam, main source of the capital's light & power. To join the loyal soldiers in their retreat, down from rural hills and valleys came farmers, woodsmen, householders, carrying rifles they had learned to shoot during the brief Army training which every Norseman receives. They were Norway's Minute...