Word: cranked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wahpeton, N. Dak., Nels Bervin's automobile stalled across a railroad track. Nels Bervin got out to crank. A train smashed the car to small bits, left Nels Bervin standing by the track holding the crank in his hand...
Four days later the Greater St. Louis unexpectedly landed after 647 hr. 28 min. 30 sec., before a desultory crowd of 800. Explained the flyers: "A cracked crank case." Observed Manager Pickens: "Not enough money. They'd have been saps to stay up." Gross rewards: possibly $30,000 in gifts, contracts for advertising and appearance at fairs. The champions might well have consoled themselves that lack of enthusiasm over their exploit would serve to forestall any early attempt to better it. But in Portland, Ore., the Stinson monoplane On to Oregon was taken aloft for just that purpose...
...twice demonstrated last week; once at This Man's Town (see above), again at Penny Arcade. The setting of the latter is indicated by its title- a gaudy pavilion with a waxen Hindu dummy in a glass case dispensing prophecies on pasteboard, and a lot of cumbersome crank machines showing moving pictures of stout ladies in their lingerie. On one side are hot dog and penny-pitch booths, on the other is a cheap photographer's studio. High above loom the mazy timbers of a scenic railway...
Just then a truck loaded with bricks blows its horn imperiously for him to get out of the way. He stops his inspection and hurries as fast as his sixty odd years will permit to crank his ancient Ford. More rivets are driven home, the truck starts back for another load of bricks and the famous professor scurries back to his class to lecture on the Platonic theory of education...
...Forbes, on whose desk the letter was laid by a secretary when it was received addressed to "Fogg Museum, Harvard College," fails to take its contents seriously and prefers to ascribe it to "some crank or mentally unbalance person." It was nevertheless, turned over to Charles Apted, chief of the Harvard Yard police, in case, said Mr. Fobes, "its recipient might incite other persons of unsound mind to annoy the Fogg officials of cause damage to University property...