Word: cleared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Griffin was alone in the fields, his little pack across his shoulder. It was a clear night, warm and silent, and the full moon the cynosure of all, and like the delicate, powdered nape of a woman it seemed to radiate an evening perfume, enticing the eye, cloying the nostril...
...dogs became frantic with hunger, boatmen grew fearful that the pack would swim out and capsize them, steered clear of the island. Soon the last lean dog gave up gnawing his dead fellows' bones...
...star footballer at Kansas State College, went to Dartmouth to play more football, study astronomy. There he came to the attention of famed, blind Astronomer Edwin B. Frost, who got him a post at Yerkes Observatory. Fox later became professor of astronomy at Northwestern, spent every clear night at the telescope, slept from 6 a.m. to 11, took a long swim in Lake Michigan before going to afternoon classes. As an infantry officer he saw action in the Spanish and World Wars. Last week the trustees of the Rosenwald Museum asked the Planetarium's Dr. Fox to double...
...millions of Midwesterners the Great Lakes are a vacationland provided by Nature on a scale with the prairies of the Mississippi Valley. To U. S. industry their clear water has been for years the cheapest medium in the world for moving freight. The Great Lakes waterway curves southeast 1,000 miles from the greatest sources of iron ore on the continent to the greatest U. S. steelmaking centres. It lies between the richest grainland of North America and the richest consumer population on any seaboard in the world. The tonnage of freight shipped and received at lake ports...
Perhaps the biggest disappointment was in the pole vault where Win Pettingell managed to vault only to 12 feet, 6 1/2 inches and leave the way clear for Singston of Rhode Island at 13 feet...