Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...Yale team has been handicapped by lack of practice, having to do all of its preliminary work in the Ice Palace in Philadelphia. The discontinuance of the New York Arena, one of the finest ice surfaces in the East, was a heavy blow to the Yale hockey team, and it now looks as if the Elis would have to hold most of their practices out of town...
...first blow is for the critics, whom he divides into four classes, and then by means of brightly entertaining dialogue, levels them with the very meanest worm that ever crawled the earth's surface. It seems that Shaw took particular delight in "roasting" the critics of whom he has always had small opinion. It was he who once said "Produce me your best critic, and I will criticise his head off." He does. But one wonders if this clan does not like it; if the critics, so often feared, or forgotten, by the playwrights, do not enjoy the play...
Frequently it was necessary to call time out for injuries. Men on both teams were severely bruised and shaken up in the scrimmages. However, all the University players stayed in the game, including Allen, the left fullback, who received a blow on the head that caused a severe hemorrhage...
...pretty clear that ancient Hellas has had enough of readymade diplomacy and wants to be its own boss from Athens out and not from London or Paris in. But immediately England and France serve notice that they will "not tolerate," King Constantine's return. That it is a grave blow to the allies because it shows the great ingratitude of the people toward the man who did so much for Greece. After all, what concern is it of England if the Greek people are ungrateful? Didn't the United States show something very akin to Greece's so-called "ungratefulness...
...results of the recent elections in Austria, so tensely watched by the rest of Europe, have finally been announced, much to the satisfaction of the Entente. For the Austrians, led by most of their daily journals, have shaken off the spell of Prussian mesmerism and dealt a decided blow to the hopes of an Austro-German State . . . hopes which were not merely fictional, but were worked out on an absolute plan with characteristic German efficiency. Pan-Germanism is the name for this idea which would unite Austria and Germany into one; it has its leaders and thinkers, who were running...