Word: cliffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...National Air Races in Cleveland last week end for prizes handsome enough to cover the cost of a racing plane and a decent burial, the speed-mad fringe of U. S. aviation whistled up a great sound and fury. When it was all over, the pockets of Cleveland Promoters Cliff and Phil Henderson were again lined, only one flier had been killed,† and the whinny of ships racing against borrowed time had proved that aviation still has plenty of broncos...
...class of 1939. The Crimson lost, 21-19, but the regulars were beginning their four-year development, regulars like ends Bob Green and Don Daughters, tackle Ken Booth, centers Tim Russell and Rick Hedblom, backs Chief Boston, Frank Foley and Austie Harding, and Harlow's jack-of-all-trades, Cliff Wilson...
...Seek shelter in a cave, depression in the ground, deep valley, foot of a steep cliff, grove of trees...
...heroine and villain of The Fatal Ring, Wartime cinema serial thriller; Miss White in Paris of a liver ailment, Mr. Oland in Stockholm of bronchopneumonia. Throughout her career as serial queen, Miss White never used a double, never visited Hollywood. Mr. Oland, who often threatened cinema death to daring, cliff-hanging Heroine White, won further fame as Detective Charlie Chan in a recent series of mystery films; Miss White in 1921 retired to Paris with a fortune...
Less fortunate were a trio of Italian alpinists who were killed last week when a shower of rocks released by a lightning bolt swept them, off a &650-ft. cliff on the south wall of Mt. Marmolata in the Dolomites...