Word: carli
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lockheed Airport at Burbank, Calif. Arriving there, the piloting general skimmed across the field to test the wind, headed back for a landing. Watchers saw his Northrop attack plane spin, crash in flames, set a frame house afire, slice through a parked automobile. The occupants of neither house nor car were injured, but Major General Westover died with his crew chief. Technical Sergeant Samuel Hymes. Ordered to inquire into causes was Major Joseph L. Stromme, who guessed that Pilot Westover had flown too slowly, got caught in a downward thermal draft...
...Haven and New London, the storm waves hurled shipping into the streets and across railroad tracks. The crack Bostonian express train had to nose a house out of its way as it crawled, half-submerged, to safety, dragging telephone poles by their fallen wires, leaving all but one car behind in a washout. A capsized naval training ship started a fire in New London that consumed an entire city block. Mrs. Helen E. Lewis, Republican nominee for Connecticut Secretary of State, was drowned with her husband when their island cottage at Stony Creek was swept away...
...Memorial Hall or the Lampoon's annual wheeze about Freshman advisers is David Dickinson '20, the big man with the broad brimmed hat, who for fifteen years has on fair days followed the fire engines in a red three-wheeled contraption that looks like a cross between a kiddie-car and a barber's chair...
Corporal Henry Finch of Roslindale took the CRIMSON staff car through rows of sentries who kept vandals from the devastated areas to the sand banks where some of the Harvard men were on guard. "We are shifted all around," said Seargent Geoffrey W. Lewis '34, former tutor and assistant dean, "sometimes we're on a highway, sometimes in a cranberry...
...free garage during the year. Miss Cole, of Grant Street, is a dog enthusiast, and has decided that a dog's favorite dish is cows' udders. She has accordingly offered garage space to any one who will drive over to the stock yards in Watertown and bring back a car load of cows' udders whenever necessary...