Word: flew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ekins, who just flew around the world, said he had promised not to comment on conditions in Palestine and India. Then he was given transit visas...
...those at the ends of the field chosen for the contest. Having drawn one of the middle lands, Minnesota's Ted Balko, 1934 champion, was handicapped by rows so spotty that once he found only three ears in 15 feet, of which one was so small that it flew through a crack in his bang-board. Adam Byczynski, Illinois champion and a hot favorite, husked fast but carelessly. His creditable total of 1,630 lb. was cut down to 1,466 by penalties. Well short of the Byczynski gross but a shade ahead of his net was the score...
...couldn't spare much time, so he took a night Pullman from Chicago to Memphis, chartered a plane there, came on to Monroe, arriving in time to make his speech, hurrying out to the airport immediately he had finished and flew to Memphis in time to get a night train back to Chicago. He paid the entire expense of the trip himself. He lost one day from his Chicago paper, but his good sportsmanship and courtesy to the Louisiana newspaper publishers and editors will not soon be forgotten. Behind that tough exterior you paint in such bitter colors...
Said the following famed citizens just before the ballots flew...
Dean of the St. Louis Cardinals plunged into a fence near Birmingham when a bumblebee flew into his car, distracted him. Muttered Pitcher Dean, falling into bed with his pet Scottish terrier, while his automobile was repaired: "Batters like Wally Berger. Mel Ott and Paul Waner aren't in it with...