Word: arrowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...white Indians with blonde hair, who live like animals . . . was confirmed by Dr. Donald S. Wees, Harvard Museum explorer. . . . The explorer said the Indians were completely naked and without homes, shelter or traps of any kind, subsisting on food gathered in the jungles or shot with bow and arrow. . . . Dr. Wees was unable to photograph the Indians, who were as shy as animals and every bit as dangerous. Their chief menace to the jungle traveler, he said, was their quest for horses and mules which they sought for meat...
...developments. His critics declare that his activity for "pork barrel" legislation helps to keep him in his House seat. Outside Congress: Fairly well-to-do, he owns a row house in Foxhall Village, a development in Georgetown, lives there with his wife and young son. He drives a Pierce Arrow, wears glasses. likes to pitch horseshoes, take long solitary walks. Formal Washington society interests him little or none. Beetle-browed, tightlipped, he dresses well but inconspicuously. His smoke: cigars. Impartial House observers rate him thus: A quiet and obscure legislator, he is typical of the Congressional rank & file of whom...
...cannot say farewell to life and you in formal words. Life seems to me like a Japanese picture which our imagination does not allow to end with the margin. We aim at the infinite, and when our arrow falls to earth it is in flames...
...other two famed trains were in mishaps. At Weverton, Md. the Baltimore & Ohio's eastbound Capitol Limited, going 40 m.p.h., jumped the track when a wheel of the tank-tender broke out of line. None was injured. At Princeton Junction, N. J. the Pennsylvania's westbound Red Arrow sloughed across three tracks at 45 m. p. h. when the locomotive's water scoop failed to rise properly from the track trough. Injured...
...field, while Glangesia came in seventh. Glangesia, a 12-year-old Irish horse, ridden by his Irish jockey, James Ryan, last autumn won the International Steeplechase at Grasslands Downs, Tenn. In his exuberance "Dick" Mellon told friends that, if he won the Grand National, he would buy a Fierce-Arrow automobile and "give it away...