Word: cabined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Founder. Many a rich U. S. un-versity owes its name to an individual now remote and legendary?Lord Jeffrey Amherst, Elihu Yale, Ezra Cornell, Nicholas Brown, John Harvard. It is less than six years since James Buchanan Duke passed to his rest. Famed as a "log-cabin milionaire, " hero of many a stirring success story, he was born and lived not far from the new Duke campus. Durham is full of Duke cousins and fresh memories of the State's great man. Many an oldster is left who knew the great man's father, Washington Duke. The rich story...
Though "Old Man Wash" was almost illiterate, he was no "po' white," and the birthplace of his sons Brodie, Benjamin Newton ("Ben") and James Buchanan ("Buck") was no log cabin but a farmhouse surrounded by 300 acres of good North Carolina land. In 1865 the Civil War was over; Wash was 45 years old, had 500 in cash and a bag of tobacco that Federal soldiers had left on the farm. This he sifted, labeled Pro Bono Publico, sold in Durham. Then he built a log cabin on his farm, made more tobacco, a great deal more...
...Lockheed Orion, a seven-passenger cabin plane with low wing and retractable landing gear, designed to fly 220 m. p. h., first of a fleet to be operated on Bowen air lines between Washington and Dallas...
...ramshackle Negro cabin near Camden, S. C.. is a room papered with TIME covers...
...minutes of the din was all they could endure. The "cannon," mounted on an engine block, was Inventor Paul Heylandt's latest rocket motor propelled by burning of liquid oxygen and an alcoholic liquid. It was only two feet long, weighed 15 Ib. Installed in a hermetically sealed cabin airplane for stratospheric flight, the inventor said, it would propel the craft from Berlin to any point in Europe...