Word: bend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Indiana, Senatorial candidates will be nominated at State conventions June 28 (Republican) and July 11 (Democratic). At last week's primaries eleven of the State's twelve sitting Representatives were renominated. For the twelfth seat, now held by anti-Rooseveltian Samuel Pettengill, South Bend Democrats put up a moderate Rooseveltian, George Beamer...
Mark Twain covered the same ground and water 50 years ago, so readers were not surprised that Ben Burman's novels (Mississippi, Steamboat Round the Bend) did not come up to Huckleberry Finn; surprising was the fact that Author Burman should find as much good old-time stuff as he has. His best find yet, the shanty-boat hero of Blow for a Landing, though by no means as much of a fellow as Huck Finn, is at least of the breed...
Died. Kevin Butler. 33. son of U. S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Pierce Butler; of injuries suffered when he fell through a Pullman car lavatory window at "Devil's Bend.'' one of Pennsylvania Railroad's sharpest curves; at Greensburg...
From February 1 to September 1, 1938: Philip C. Trexier, of South Bend, Ind., Research Fellow in Bacteriology, Joseph L. Lewis, of Dorchester, Assistant in Pediatrics...
...magnetic device to prevent high-speed trains from jumping the track on curves. The centrifugal pull of the train as it rounds a bend would automatically increase the magnetic grip between train and rails...