Word: hotly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were people there; in 1860 the land where Lincoln, the capital, now stands was open plain. The first settlers found a continuous, nearly flat plateau, covered with long red, shaggy grass. Buffaloes ran the plains, wallowed in hardened out water holes. The winters were hard and short, the summers hot and long. In this land Germans, Scandinavians, Czechs, and Bohemians settled. Thrifty, industrious races they have made the whole state one enormous farm of stretching fields of grain and pastures. The people, nearly 90% of them of foreign stock, are sturdy, simple. Not only grain and livestock were bred...
Sleep. Railroads, notably the Pennsylvania and B. & O, offered last week new-type pullman coaches. Each car contained 14 private rooms, communicating if desired. Each room had a full length bed, folding table and chair, full toilet facilities with hot and cold running water, electric fans, shaded lights, and full length mirror. For travel in these new cars railroads that had them charged 1¼ fare for transportation plus the price of two lower berths for the use of the rooms...
...become the sensation of the literary year," said a Ladies' Home Journal advertisement in October, 1925. The article, thus heralded, appeared: it was neither rowdy nor pornographic. It was the well-mannered and suave memoirs of John Barrymore. Titillatable females who had been led to expect red-hot nights increased the circulation of the Ladies' Home Journal and were undoubtedly disappointed...
...uppermost tip, Point Barrow, Captain George Hubert Wilkins, blackbearded Australian soldier of fortune, searcher by air for an undiscovered continent, warmed up the Wright Whirlwind motor of a Stinson plane by leaving an oil heater in the hangar all night. The thermometer was at 50 below 0. Buckets of hot oil poured into the motor next morning sped the getaway. With an offshore wind under tail, Captain Wilkins and his pilot, hardbitten Carl Ben Eielson, steered 25° west of north, and vanished out over the Arctic Ocean. The plan was to fly thus for six hours, then turn southwest...
...first half was evenly played, the University scoring only two goals. The first score was made by Francis Rouillard '23 captain of the 1923 team, when he kicked the ball into his own goal in a hot scrimmage. The second marker was also made from scrimmage after a fast triple pass by C. O. Simpson '27 when both of the opposing defense men were drawn out of position...