Word: fodder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...travels through the world whither his hobby-horse bears him, sees those things which the faithful animal gives him to see, browses on what fodder of facts the hobby recommends. For years an ancient Abyssinian manuscript. "The Glory of the Kings", has rested among the treasures of the British Museum, and many times has it been translated. But never until an enthusiast for flying studied it did it disclose that Solomon gave to his friend, the Queen of Sheba, an airship which her son, Menyelek, flew. Without the hobby-horse of Colonel Lockwood Marsh, Secretary of the Royal Aeronautical Society...