Word: crabbed
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...large contraption that looked something like a horseshoe crab with a fin on its back and a propeller in its nose was wheeled out on the airport at South Bend. Ind. one day last week. Glenn Fesler Doolittle, 23-year-old cousin of famed Pilot Jimmy Doolittle, climbed into a pit in the crab's back and flew it away. Around & around the airport he flew, as fast as 97 m.p.h. (although the motor was only 37 h.p.), flipping and diving the weird machine like a kite in a gusty sky. Finally he brought it down, sinking gently...
Under the terms of the award, any craft propelled by the man power of an undergraduate publication may issue a challenge within two weeks of the date scheduled for the races. The American Association for the Advancement of Annual Amateur Crab-catching Carnivals between College Comics and Dailies was founded to improve international relations...
...built and in which my father was born . . . where I whispered up the chimney flue to Santa Claus, roasted apples in the ashes with my brother, started my first novel at the age of six, saw pumpkin faces at the window on Halloween, watched the marshes freeze over, the crab-apple tree blossom, the hay being hurriedly brought to shelter ahead of the storm and the wind blowing the last brown leaves about the yard...
...This is most sad for brave Lien Wha; she is in love with a handsome young Chinese named Tom Lee. It is giving away no secret to explain that Tommy Lee turns out to be a Chinese prince; and that the gambler is a criminal called The Sea Crab who, also concerned with patriotic problems, hopes to prevent the $100,000 from finding its way to China and to murder the prince. He succeeds in one of his objectives...
Entrepreneur Moss insisted on naming the new vessel Explorer. This disappointed Designer Lake who, because the small submarine can trundle sidewise over the sea floor, ached to call her Crab...