Word: flagstaffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exuberant Henry Ashurst was turnkey at the Flagstaff, Ariz, county jail. In 1904 he interrupted his law studies at University of Michigan long enough to marry the young Irish widow who managed Flagstaff's weather bureau. In 1912 he was elected to the U. S. Senate, has been there ever since, famous, admired for his fluent sesquipedalian style-the elegant, eloquent Henry Fountain Ashurst. Into wifely anonymity faded the little Irish woman, beloved by the few who knew her kindness...
Earl Carl Slipher of Lowell Observatory (Flagstaff, Ariz.) has spent more time looking at Mars than any other living astronomer. Some years ago he made photographs showing that there are clouds and storms in the atmosphere of Mars, mostly in the neighborhood of the Martian equator. These are thickest in the early Martian morning, quickly vanish as the sun climbs...
Last October, a blond boy on a bicycle left Hollywood, pumping hard, and headed east for Flagstaff, Ariz. Just as the sun rose on the day after Thanksgiving, he dropped his bicycle on his grandmother's frosty lawn in Monroe, N. Y., curled up in a sleeping bag and went to sleep. He felt good, not only because he had covered 3,268 miles on $31 and had averaged 78 strenuous miles a day, but because on his way he had painted about 40 water colors. Last week 25 of them, exhibited at the Manhattan galleries of Charles...
Died. Gerald ("Jerry") Vultee, 38, aircraft designer (Vultee Transport), and wife, Sylvia Parker Vultee, 27; when his own plane caught fire in mid-air and crashed on Wilson Mountain, near Flagstaff, Ariz...
...cloudbursts, first from the east, then from the west, and some claim that it rained up as well as down. Dawn came, at long last, with a rising sun, a clear sky, and the fatigue trousers of Robert V. Smith, Yale '38, fluttering wildly in the breeze from the flagstaff on the old fort...