Word: craned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Significance. Strangest fact about Miss Ravenel's Conversion is that it has been forgotten for so long. Battle scenes like the storming of Port Hudson are superior to those of Stephen Crane; the humor, bewilderment and passion of Miss Lillie make Hawthorne's and Cooper's damsels seem moral abstractions. Although, in its 466 pages, the book sometimes seems labored, and antiquated asides slow down its fast story, De Forest's wit picks it up, springs out in the plain talk of soldiers, his comments on the appallingly dull conversations of people in love...
...Major Carl F. Greene & Captain Alfred H. Johnson for pioneering the stratosphere in pressurized planes "with utter disregard for personal safety"; on Captains George V. Holloman & Carl J. Crane for automatic instrument landings under like hazard...
...Bibichkow's tailor shop on Chicago's West Side with $2 and came back with a bundle of balsawood, twine and glue. Jolly, dark-haired, young Bill Bibichkow took the rest of the capital and came back with a scroll saw. Working after classes at Crane Technical High School they began to turn out model airplane kits, sold the first one for 43?. For the first month of their partnership-October, 1929-their books showed: gross business, $5.59; expenses, $3.35; balance...
...Crane Leads Golfers...
...crack Lowell golf team, which won its sixth straight victory yesterday from Eliot by default, will meet the Yale champions, Berkeley's Mitres, on the Elis' home course. Jack Crane, most consistent player on the Bellboy squad, will head the Crimson delegation in their invasion. Shooting in the vicinity of 80 in every match, Crane will play in the number one position...