Word: craning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strong west wind made parachute jumpers trying for spot landings in a 100-ft. circle bale out at 1.500 ft. behind the stands. Joe Crane of Roosevelt Field, L. I. and Joe Brown of Cincinnati floated in to tie for first place at 54 in. from the circle...
Birthdays. Gifford Pinchot, 68; Carlos Manuel de Cespedes, 62; Herbert Hoover, 59; Dr. Hugo Eckener, 56; Nathalia Clara Ruth Abarbannel Crane...
...Stranger's Return is bare enough in outline. Grandpa pretends to be suffering from senile dementia, uses the three doctors of the county insane board as witnesses to a new will in which he leaves the farm to his granddaughter. She falls in love with young Guy Crane (Franchot Tone) whose land lies next to Storrhaven but there is nothing to be done about it because neither she nor Guy want to hurt Guy's wife. At the end of the story, Grandpa is dead, Guy is going East to teach, Louise is staying on at Storrhaven...
...favor. Sure enough, Grandpa and Louise took to each other instantly, soon became great pals. Though Louise was a Manhattanite she found herself quickly at home on the farm, won the approval of the neighbors by her ready backchat and friendly ways. She won more than approval from Guy Crane, a rising young married farmer, and from Simon, Grandpa's taciturn farmhand: but she kept things fairly well under control. To make the plotters show their hand Grandpa pretended to go crazy. Unmasked at last, they were shown the door, and Grandpa and Louise breathed easily again. When Grandpa...
...Chase '96, was elected president for the coming year, while L. P. Marvin '98, will be Vice-President. Williard Reed '91, and Crane Brinton '19, were elected Chief Marshal and Corresponding Secretary respectively...