Word: bolts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Backer Charles Levine, patriotically christened the Wright-Bellanca monoplane Columbia, (TIME, May 2) with a tepid bottle of ginger ale. Afterwards, laughing, she climbed into the Columbia with her friend Grace Jonas, Superintendent John Carisi and Pilot Clarence D. Chamberlin for a ride. As the plane took off, a bolt was sheared in the shock absorbers, crippling the landing dolly, meaning disaster 99 out of a 100 cases...
...however the Vagabond cannot youth, told of an employee in one of Mr. Ford's automobile factories who on his death-bed was asked to give his idea of paradise. It had been this worthy man's occupation to give the second from the last turn to the last bolt on the chasis as they moved past him, his fellow worker standing beside him putting the finishing touch to the product. Now as he lay dying he could think of but one supreme desire, but one thing which to him to approach the unknowable paradise. His answer was short...
...Calvin Coolidge has shot his bolt. He's dead. His official spokesman is a spiritualist. And then take the matter of these people down in Nicaragua. I have never been acquainted with many of them, although one never knows whom he's going to meet in Cambridge. Yet I have a friend who is engaged to one and he says he really likes her. In fact he prefers her to the Roumanian outfit. Now she's probably representative of a lot of that bunch down there. Good fellows who like a little war once in a while...
...goal tenders, Shermon and Bolt, are both Sophomores. Shea at center and Rogers in a forward berth are also stars from last year's Freshman sextet. The other forward, Gardner, is a Senior and was a substitute on last year's Green University ice squad...
...Francis of Assisi. Dr. Witherspoon Dodge of Atlanta, mild-mannered pastor of the Central Congregational Church, was in the audience. Startled by the Northerner's tone and manner, Dr. Dodge ventured a question on Dr. Straton's interpretation of evolution. Dr. Straton's reply was as the bolt of a self-appointed God of vengeance. Nettled, Dr. Dodge asked another question. Again the reply was bitter. Dr. Dodge grew warm, warmer, hot, and was answered by the shout of a fanatic: "I know what I am! You don't know what you are! And I know, too, that...