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Word: fernbank (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1930
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...second to reach the finish line but the first entirely across it. That started an argument which could not be settled until, last week, they lined up again, their engines roaring and their stovepipe smokestacks belching smoke black as ink, 50 ft. behind the starting line at Fernbank dam, twelve miles below Cincinnati. A small cannon boomed; both started for the line, the Tom Greene accelerating with the quick pick-up that has made river-people call her "Hopping Tom." Nailed firmly on the front of the wheelhouse of the ''Hopping Tom," where stood young Capt. Tom Greene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Puffing Race | 7/7/1930 | See Source »

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