Word: conneaut
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because an Ashtabula bowler was kept at home by his wife's illness last week, one Mike Blazek of nearby Conneaut, Ohio, was recruited to substitute for him in the American Bowling Congress tournament, which was last week entering its seventh and final week in Chicago's huge Coliseum (TIME, April...
...tons of ore, 44,699,443 tons of coal, 7,433,967 tons of grain and 12,080,672 tons of limestone to and from lake ports. From Duluth, Superior, Escanaba, they brought ore to the mills of Gary, South Chicago and Cleveland, to Ashtabula and Conneaut to be transshipped by rail to Pittsburgh, Youngstown, Bethlehem. Reloading at Toledo and Sandusky they returned, carrying coal from the bituminous fields of Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, to the industries of Detroit, Milwaukee, Duluth and the Northwest. From Duluth and from the gigantic grain elevators of Fort William and Port Arthur, they carried...
...long-armed, cocksure Irish youth, reared by modestly well-off parents in Conneaut, Ohio, Kelley entered Yale after a year at Peddie, where he was noted for his skill at basketball. After a season on Yale's freshman football team, its coach Mal Stevens predicted that he would eventually be the greatest pass-catcher in Yale history. By mid-season of his sophomore year, Kelley had fulfilled this prediction. He caught passes, mostly from Yale's Quarterback Jerry Roscoe, for touchdowns against Columbia, Brown, Harvard, Princeton. The last, on a one-hand catch, broke Princeton...
...last week a black cloud rolled in from Lake Erie toward Conneaut, Ohio, dropped from its belly a thin, whirling column which touched the dark water, churned up a fountain of spray. This towering waterspout, more than 3,000 ft. high, moved in over the fringe of the town, where it began to behave like a tornado. It smashed windows in a score of houses, ripped off a porch, reduced a chicken coop to matchwood, hurled a bevy of screeching fowl high into the air. Prancing into the Nickel Plate Road yards, the funnel sucked up some heavy cans...
...Hour later another and smaller waterspout raced in from the lake toward awe-struck Conneaut, expired in a lakeside park...