Word: blowing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Thayer-Stroke, G. G. Allen '19; 7, G. Blow Unc.; 6, R. Stone '21; 5, J. Twoer '21; 4. J. Manning '21, 3, A. L. Gardner Ooc.; 2, A. Clossons '21; bow, J. Randall...
...psychology of the authors of the red parody is somewhat unusual. Its brilliant color made it sell like wild fire; red magazines were sticking out of everybody's pockets on Wednesday afternoon. But the attempted blow proved a boomerang. For every copy of the parody sold,--the figure is said to approach 1,500,--a copy of the real magazine was also sold. The satirists gave the true paper the best possible free advertising and undoubtedly doubled if not trebled the circulation of the first number...
...cheered when the CRIMSON republished Dr. Lake's article on education. It is a stalwart blow against a pernicious fallacy. Editorial Honoris Causa No. 2 depressed me, for it is no way true that "success in life is based upon detailed study of facts," at least for those few who do not wish to become Berlin statisticians. It is if possible even more false that universities have any such raison d'etre. Instructors who think so mistake the proper means of teaching us "how to think and to find out things for themselves." To paraphrase Dr. Lake further...
...back into it again on the Vesle for 10 days more. Yes, I think that's a pretty good record for a regiment not thirteen months old, and in their first fight, too--a pretty good record and one we're all proud of, too. But I mustn't blow our horn too loud--you'll think the old fighting 38th is patting itself on the back too strong...
From a night of calm security I rose, as did thousands about me, to the day's work. But before I could leave my room the steam whistles of all the great industries in the great city and of all the steam craft in its great harbor began to blow.; to bellow and scream and roar and wail in unnumbered voices that presently fused into one and rolled down through hundreds of miles of streets into the open country...