Word: bents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days Pilot Hughes had driven this big racer over the Santa Ana course. The first day he broke the landplane record with ease, lost the credit for it because of a technicality. The second day, he fulfilled all the requirements, had nearly finished when the mishap occurred. As he bent to inspect the damage, exuberant timers announced he had averaged 352.4 m.p.h.. needed only official confirmation to be declared record-holder.-* Still disgruntled, Pilot Hughes snapped: "It'll go faster...
...Mallinckrodt MB 8 13* Wed. at 12 Mallinckrodt MB 8 18* Wed. at 2-5 Pierce 112A 21* Wed. at 11 Coolidge Lab. 23* Consult Professor Kistiakowsky 24* Thurs. at 11 Mallinckrodt MB 8 25* Consult Dr. Coolidge Mallinckrodt 206 26* Thurs. at 3 Coolidge Lab. 27* Consult Professor Bent CHINESE 1 Wed. at 11 Boylston 26 2a* Thurs. at 10 Boylston 25 3a* Wed. at 12 Boylston 25 9 Wed. at 9-12 Boylston 17 10* Thurs. at 11 Boylston 25 11 Thurs. at 11 Boylston 26 19* Wed. at 2 Boylston 25 CLASSICAL ARCHAEOLOGY 1a Thurs...
...Kitty, he does not return to her. Instead, under an assumed name, he takes to writing juveniles, attended only by a secretary (Frieda Inescort) and his friend Sir George Barton (John Halliday). On the eve of their marriage, Kitty and Gerald learn of his existence. Still hell-bent on self-sacrifice, Alan arranges the furniture in the living room, hides his Braille books, awaits their call. When they arrive, he greets them soberly, pours a drink for each and, grimly pretending that he sees her perfectly, explains to Kitty that he no longer loves her. The great moment then arrives...
...Chicago. Great was their chagrin when Judge Tellander looked over the lot, selected River Bend by Marvin Cone, art instructor at Coe College, Cedar Rapids. Good friend of famed Grant Wood, Artist Cone showed that eminent Iowan's stylistic influence. River Bend was a sweep of stream and a bent road over a round hill nibbled at the bottom by a quarry, all huddled under a low sky of close-flapping clouds. On Manhattan's 57th Street it would have delighted dilettantes. But Iowa "Conservatives" sent up a howl because the river was grey and did not look enough like...
Like Will Rogers, Charles Curtis, Mrs. Edith Gait Wilson, Eugene Luther Vidal. Tom Mix and many another noted U. S. citizen, Wiley Post was part Indian. Born 36 years ago on a Texas farm, he was raised in the Indian Territory oil fields, showed an early mechanical bent. One cay a red-hot steel splinter flew into his left eye, blinded it. Given $1,800 disability compensation, he promptly bought an old "Canuck," was soon barnstorming the Southwest. In Sweetwater, Tex. he met & married a pretty 17-year-old girl named Mae Laine who regarded him and his occupation with...