Word: jacobe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...engines and flying gear were what M. Clavier's tall, slow comrade, Jacob Islamoff, 28, was inspecting one last time. He had worked on this ship, the S-35, ever since her designs were first unfolded in the Sikorsky shops. Out over the ocean it would be his task, not only to help Clavier with the radio, but to watch every cam and strut aboard. That they would flawlessly function he was certain, but he did eye for a moment the special "dolly" (wheeled landing gear) which had been added to help the S-35 leave earth, and which...
...stupid unromance of banditry never loomed more starkly than when six greasy Mexicans kidnaped during the week a retired Long Island butcher, Jacob Rosenthal...
...JACOB A. EVANSON...
...House are two other Congresswomen, elected to succeed their husbands: Florence P. Kahn of San Francisco, Calif., spouse of the late famed statesman Julius Kahn; Edith Nourse Rogers of Lowell, Mass., spouse of the late John Jacob Rogers, potent shoe manufacturer...
OBERLIN'S THREE STAGES- Jacob Wassermann - Harcourt Brace ($2.50). In the first of the three stories of this book, a man softly enters the bedroom of a young girl about to be sent to an asylum. She is his ward. She is tubercular. She loves life and is bidding it farewell as she dresses herself a last time before her mirror. She is so preoccupied that she fails to notice her guardian's entrance, or a shooting riot that is in progress in the street. He sits in a shadow watching, then steals away, deeply moved. . . . The scene...