Word: crowings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Frantically alarmed as the minutes ticked away, United Airlines officials sent out soldiers, ambulances, airplanes in search, tried to imagine what kind of accident had occurred. Not until dawn did they learn, and then the news was the worst possible. Looking down into the rough jumble of hills in Crow Creek Valley, 13 miles from Cheyenne, a searching pilot spied the gleaming fuselage of the plane lying like a disemboweled fish at the end of a quarter-mile trail of destruction. Scattered along this were shreds of cloth, lipsticks and compacts, magazines, pieces of sheet music, and, almost touching...
...accomplishing that much Manhattan took the initiative of noise abatement for the entire country. This was something for Mayor LaGuardia to crow about. For raucous Times Square is less noisy than the noisiest areas of Chicago or Washington. On the other hand, Manhattan was only commencing what great foreign cities have already accomplished. After midnight no horn-blowing or other cacophony is permitted in Helsingfors, London, Paris, Rome, Tokyo...
Tennis 212; Swimming 186; Singles 152; Crow 143; Football 93; Soccer 51; Fencing 29; Track 84; Baseball 29; Cross Country 17; Miscellaneous 16; Managers...
...Presidential party rolled into the yards at Boulder City, Nev. at cock crow. After breakfast all hands turned out for an inspection of huge Boulder Dam, which Herbert Hoover had started but which Franklin Roosevelt had helped along with a $38,000,000 PWA grant and was now about to dedicate...
Since over the next six years it will take a three-fourths majority in each Methodist general conference to get the plan ratified, observers believed that unrealistic, idealistic Northern Liberals could, and probably would, hold up Methodism's mighty merger on the "Jim Crow principle...