Word: arrowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Parson's Arrow...
...same demands for coolheadedness and skill, yields the same exercise, is just as captivating of interest and enthusiasm. At the tournament several records were broken, notably the world's long-distance flight record with a yew bow. The Rev. L. L. Dailey, of Monmouth, Ore. shot an arrow 14 yards short of a quarter mile. Present U. S. Target Champion is Russell Hoogerhyde, 24, who set a tournament record score in the American Round-30 arrows each at 60, 50 and 40 yards...
Another score for Studebaker is the excellent earnings record of its subsidiary, Fierce-Arrow. Sales for the first quarter of 193,0 were 115% over 1929 figures; second quarter sales are expected to show a 33% gain, over first quarter. To Studebaker President Albert Russell Erskine goes much of the credit. A man of figures rather than a production man, he sowed $2,000.000 in 1928 in the then tottering Fierce-Arrow Motor Car Co., reaped $2,000,000 in Pierce-Arrow dividends for Studebaker the next year. The record came to its latest climax with a recent report that...
Speed, a modern goddess, exacts fierce allegiance from those who worship her in motorboats, airplanes, automobiles. Among Speed's most faithful devotees was Major Sir Henry O'Neal Dehane Segrave. Last year in his monster car, the Golden Arrow, at Daytona Beach, Fla. he set a new world automobile record of 231.36 m. p. h. In March he was fined ?5 for driving his private car 45 m. p. h. in Hampstead. People smiled at that story. Segrave, who had said he was through with auto racing, seemed to be keeping his word. But Segrave was continuing...
West Virginia is pocked with Indian mounds which have yielded bushels of arrow heads and other implements. One of the greatest mound discoveries was in Moundsville where, in 1838, was unearthed stone plaque covered with cryptic writing. Hoping to find some trace of the ancestry of prehistoric Americans savants plunged into the task of deciphering the writing...