Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day, in a third Monocoupe rushed from the factory at St. Louis, the Lindberghs headed west once more. At Roswell, N. Mex. a cactus punctured a tire as they were taking off, caused another delay. At Phoenix, Ariz. the tire went flat again, forced the Colonel to make a precarious one-wheel landing. Finally at Blythe, a small desert town in California, inadequate landing lights compelled the Lindberghs to remain overnight. They were still 300 mi. from their Pacific Coast goal...
Comeback. Last year, fortnight after his wedding at Hangchow, China, Lieut. Christopher Mathewson Jr., son of Baseball's late great "Big Six," took his bride for an airplane ride, cracked up on a mud-flat. His bride lost her life, he his left leg. Last week, with an artificial leg, Christy Mathewson Jr. went to Roosevelt Field, L. I., had an instructor "check him out," made several solo flights. Said he: "I find I can fly as well as ever. . . . I intend to carry on in the industry...
Into these Labor Battalions onetime Laborer Adolf Hitler has put a good deal of heart. To suspicious Frenchmen they are troops drilling in flat violation of the Treaty of Versailles. To the Realmleader they are more. They are almost all that is left of the Socialism in his National Socialist creed which events have made steadily more Nationalist...
...rout his unscrupulous competitors. Then he was to plunge into rehearsals for the premiere of The Pirates of Penzance, whose production was impeded at the start by the absentmindedness of pious Arthur Sullivan. In his haste to make a later boat, Composer Sullivan had left behind in his London flat the entire score...
ZION, Ill. (UP).-Wilbur Glen Voliva, religious leader, who says the world is flat, has notified his followers that the world will end Sept. 10. ... He says that those in his colony on Sept. 10 will be saved, that the rest can go to Hell, Editor's Note-The doomed will include all delinquent Item subscribers. Play safe and pay up at once, as we don't want to chase all over Hell after these bills...