Word: gulling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Planar-wheel suspension" for greater riding ease, compound hydraulic brakes and steel bodies "reinforced by steel" (to go the others one better) for safety, and "skyway silhouette" with "slim, silvery radiators, intriguing new hood louvers, and gull's wing fenders" for improved body lines-these are the contributions Studebaker has made this year to their models and to the advertising jargon...
...sharpens before their eyes. After they have confessed their misdeeds, mild-mannered Ezekiel lets them go. He decides the cigaret girl will make a satisfactory wife and that he does not need to go back to China. Says he: "Why should the meadow lark carry food to the sea-gull's children when her own young are famished?-Ezekiel Cobb...
...papers during the year. The 300 members publish about 150 journals, each of which is sent to every other member through a central mailing bureau. A member's packet of journals would include such items as The Pippin, The Odd One, The Penpoint, The Empire, The Sea Gull, Leisure Hours, Boys' Chum, Badger Scratches, The Bob White, Tiny Tim, The New Times ("TNT'), The Giddy Gazette. Publisher of The Red Rooster is Ralph W. Babcock Jr. of Great Neck, L. I., elected president of N. A. P. A. last week. Although most of the papers are printed...
...Provincetown, Mass, last week many a sea gull crouched fast in a huge white trap set by God. Through field glasses a Coast Guard lookout watched one try to take off from an ice floe. Vainly it beat the air with its long wings; one webbed foot was frozen fast. Soon the gull gave up, bent its sharp, hooked beak, sawed off the trapped leg and flew away. Other Coast Guardsmen last week found many a thin pinkish gull leg stuck upright...
...breezes in the second. Fink won the third race and seemed to be on the last tack to retaining his championship when the race committee reached a highly controversial decision: to disqualify Fink in the second race, in which he had finished sixth, for fouling Paul Shields's Gull. Shields had lodged no protest; the boats had not collided. Nonetheless, the committee said that Fink had crossed Shields at a marker and forced him to luff...