Word: grave
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...North America's "weather," was roaring. The German and the Eskimo leaned into the wind. The dogs kept their ears back and their bellies close to the ice. They got 40 mi. from the central station. Then Professor Wegener died. Rasmus carefully buried him and marked the grave with the upright skis. The finders of the body last week placed it on a sledge. Around and over the sledge they built a mausoleum of ice blocks. Then they went hunting for Rasmus. For a space his spoor was plain. From the grave he had wavered twelve miles toward...
...past Baltimore when smoke began rolling through the cabin. A poorly insulated heater pipe in a rear compartment had set the fuselage afire. Hostess Elizabeth Westwood (all E. A. T. planes carry young and personable women as hostesses) circulated among the passengers, assuring them there was no grave danger, while Co-Pilot G. J. McDonald fought the flames with fire extinguishers. Pilot E. C. Kondat raced to an emergency landing at Fort Hoyle. Md., sideslipping the plane to blow the flames away from the cabin. By the time the burning ship had landed, fire apparatus from the Fort...
...comparatively chivalrous affair between North and South has an increasingly romantic appeal. These five short stories, with one exception, are tales of the Civil War from the Southern point of view. A Southern farmer comes home to find his mother's grave ripped open by Yankee raiders. He traps them in the cellar, kills them...
...Vancouver. But last week his great company was forced to admit that, temporarily at least, it has not been able to take the grade of Depression at full speed. After a long meeting in the grey Windsor Station, Montreal, last week the C. P. R. directors filed out slowly, grave in the knowledge that they had ordered only half the regular dividend payment. What was a 10%, rate on C. P. R. is now a 5% rate. Not since 1902 has C. P. R. made so small a payment. From that year on the rate gradually worked higher until...
When prolific, peace loving Franz Joseph Haydn closed his eyes and died in 1809, all Europe reverently mourned him. In Vienna the admiration of two men expressed itself strangely: a jailer and the secretary of Prince Nicholas Esterhazy, Haydn's patron, bribed a gravedigger to spade open the grave, break the seal of the coffin, hack off for them the dead composer's hulking head...