Word: blowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...branches through the realization that the pension fund is running rapidly low. As a result the Foundation feels obliged to swing suddenly from the prodigal to the closed-purse. Harvard, with a large percentage of the men who benefit by the fund, suffers the hardest blow. The rather violent readjustment of amounts to be paid in the future would doubtless cause in many cases considerable annoyance...
...Wood '32 was again the individual luminary. He got two singles and a three-ply blow out of five trips to the plate, and accepted nine chances in the field without a miscue...
...that he had read Mr. Harmon's letter because he considered that it contained a valuable suggestion. In brief, Airman Harmon's plan is to equip the League of Nations with a volunteer army of aviators, and each aviator with a bombing plane, ready at command to blow the night lights out of the capital of any nation which started...
Five successive safeties in the seventh inning gave the Crimson forces three runs and an indisputable margin. Prior's triple, a beautiful drive to deep right, was the only extra base blow among them. Gilligan got his third hit of the day in this frame. The Crimson sluggers were retired in order in the eighth. McGrath and Donaghy lifted long flies to left, while Ticknor struck...
...real love had died. He had lost his devoted mother. He had a permanent quarrel with his brother. He had had financial collapse, humiliating work as a government clerk at small pay in the department of woods and forests-worst of all, lack of recognition for his music. Final blow: his life-child, the opera Boris Godonnov, tragic and powerful story of a guilty Tsar, a work loved by the people, rejected by the critics, had been taken out of the repertoire of the famed Marie Theatre and never again performed during his life. Drugs and cognac were no longer...