Word: arkfuls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American Air Derby for planes powered by 100-h. p. American Cirrus engines, finished at Los Angeles the first half of a 7,000-mi. round-the-continent race, headed east to complete the circle in Detroit. In the lead was Lee Gehlbach of Little Rock, Ark. flying a low-wing Command-Aire...
...Neither ark nor dove of peace landed on the Ararats (Big Mount Ararat & Little Mount Ararat) last week but bombs, thousands of them, raising thunder and mushroom clouds of dust. Round the Ararats' feet was the smoke of 200 burnt and blackened villages...
...balloons rode a southerly breeze out of Houston, Tex. last week to race for two of the three places on the U. S. Team in the Gordon Bennett International Balloon Race in September.* Carried east by the shifting wind, ten of the bags were downed by storms near Texarkana, Ark. Two, the Aero-Digest piloted by S. T. Moore and Lieut. W. O. Eareckson, and United Van Service with pilots George Hineman and Milford Vanik, had the unpleasant experience of being shot at by woolly-wild Texas and Arkansas farmers. Last to land, three days after the start...
...Jonesboro, Ark., home Senator Caraway, Chairman of the Lobby Committee and a Dry Methodist, who has ruthlessly heckled all manner of witnesses before his committee on their private and political affairs, did a remarkable about-face on Bishop Cannon's case. Declared Senator Caraway: "I see no occasion to insist on the Bishop testifying. The investigation is aimed at lobbying and not political matters. As he came at his own request, if he did not care to answer questions, he should be excused." Later Senator Caraway, shamefaced, left-about-faced: "I do not sustain Bishop Cannon for snapping...
Then Scholar Price recalled how in Charles Dickens' Pickwick Papers the famed Club was hoaxed. Samuel Pickwick unearthed a stone, found the inscription,"X BILST U M PSHI S.M. ARK." Much erudite discussion ensued, many translations were given. Tongue-in-cheek Author Dickens was guying scientific men. The translation was simply "Bil Stumps his mark...