Word: ditches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boys & girls, helped the young children unwrap sandwiches, got the potatoes out of the stove. While the children ate, Ralph told them about an airplane trip he had taken a few days before. First crisis of the day came after lunch, when Ralph and Johnny were discovered in the ditch beside the road, fighting. Brought before Miss Campbell, they bawled. She restored peace by appointing them both captains to run the kickball game. But Ralph was still sulky after the game. Said he: "I can't get along with no girls...
...waddled off two days later for Boston at a speed of 10 m.p.h., sometimes less, paused to nose a truck in Columbia City, Ind., slithered off the highway into Mrs. Cleo Watkin's cow pasture near Gomer, Ohio, and came to rest with its nose in a drainage ditch (TIME...
Passing is left to Fred Burr and Ted Harrison, two talented tossers. It is quite possible that Harvard will see more flying footballs than ever before this year, but they won't be too dangerous if the Elis have to resort to passing as a last-ditch measure. The Harlow aerial shelters have not received a real test since the Penn game and their strength is difficult to estimate. Cautious Yale did not fill the air with passes against Princeton, but these may be their only dangerous offensive gestures Saturday...
...Byrd expedition is to sail, with Dr. Thomas C. Poulter, veteran Byrdman, at the controls. Dr. Poulter perforce learned to drive as he went along. At Columbia City, Ind., he had a slight collision with a truck, but continued. Near Lima, Ohio, aiming for a bridge across a drainage ditch, the cruiser slithered off the roadway, sprawled across the ditch like a stricken turtle, its blunt snout ignominiously under water. A woman hitch-hiker who had been perched on the stern jumped off, fled. Driver Poulter cheerfully estimated that it would take several days to get the monster rolling again...
Curtis L. Clay, Jr. '41, his companion on the trip, was riding 50 yards ahead, and escaped injury when the speeding car sideswiped Wheeler, throwing him 90 feet into a ditch...