Word: junction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wide at the airport. The other is a lateral, curved landing beam which slants down onto the field from one side, almost vertical ten miles out, 60 feet above ground at field edge, 15 feet above at field-centre. When the pilot has put his plane squarely on the junction of these two beams, he turns the control over to the robot which brings the plane down the invisible slope to a landing. All the human pilot does is to handle the throttle, watch the instruments, apply the brakes when the wheels touch...
...night last January, the Bannister boys and their 15-year-old sister Frances tramped seven miles through the snow-muffled forest to the Pacific Junction cabin of one Phillip Lake who-lived with another man's wife and his two children by her. He had a baby daughter who might be kidnapped and palmed off as Mrs. Bannister's. The boys shot and killed Lake, chased his naked woman into the snow, clubbed her to death, left her 20-month-old son Jackie floundering in the snow beside her, set fire to the cabin. Jackie shortly froze...
...inspiration for the springs of mirth, a Student Councilman surely will not, and secondly, the men who will seek this office will be those who have gone through their College career grubbing for even the most withered of laurels with which to dignify themselves before the girls in Paris Junction. I can think of no man in my class who would go through this preposterous rigamarole, of whom I would not be ashamed when he delivered his speech in June. In the past the election of the Orator may have been influenced by considerations of general merit rather than...
...they join to form the Ohio stand the skyscrapers, department stores, theatres and hotels of Pittsburgh's business district. At first, as the rivers swelled after 24 hours of pelting snow, sleet and rain, the city was vastly alarmed by a prediction that the water-level at their junction might rise as high as 34 ft.-close to the record set by the disastrous flood of 1907. Twenty-four hours later the junction stood at an all-time high of 48 ft., and in the Golden Triangle a swimmer could not touch bottom...
...Saturday afternoon crowd was pulling for a Memphis dog called Hugh White, but he found only one covey and one rabbit. That left only one dog to run, Wicomico. Waiting around the drug store and hotel in tiny Grand Junction, experts figured that here was a make or break situation. A brilliant heat by Wicomico would win. Otherwise, two or more top dogs would be called back to try again. For once, the wise bird dog fanciers of Grand Junction were wrong. Wicomico's heat was not good enough to win. Instead of calling for a runoff, the judges...