Word: blowed
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Receives a blow...
Indications as to the Autumn's business continue to blow both hot and cold. On the one hand, money is easy, railroad car loadings are very large, unemployment is practically nonexistent, wages are high, merchants' stocks are scanty rather than heavy and the construction industry is apparently settling into more inexpensive and efficient production. On the other hand, wheat has touched new low prices under one dollar, cotton has also declined, petroleum is being produced in excess of the immediate demand, radical legislators are rapidly getting into apparent control of the next Congress, the long-predicted crash...
...soot-laden white mist of great weight. Owing to the warmth of the ground and the consequent lighter pressure the fog descends from its chilly couch in the skies-that is, when there is no wind to blow it away-and covers the earth until the heat gradually dissipates it. Were it not for the soot, the mist would probably be dissipated by the surface heat as it descended...
...asked the President to let me go down to Congress and ask Congress to hit the Germans where it would hurt, to strike a blow from which they knew they could never recover, and let them know right now, as an act of war that we proposed to Americanize this property...
...round of a fight in Paris. When Morelle went down Siki was so ignorant of the ethics of his profession that he began bowing to the crowd under the impression that he had scored a clean knockout. It took the referee some time to convince him that the foul blow had ended the fight-in Morelle's favor...