Word: logged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Founder. Many a rich U. S. un-versity owes its name to an individual now remote and legendary?Lord Jeffrey Amherst, Elihu Yale, Ezra Cornell, Nicholas Brown, John Harvard. It is less than six years since James Buchanan Duke passed to his rest. Famed as a "log-cabin milionaire, " hero of many a stirring success story, he was born and lived not far from the new Duke campus. Durham is full of Duke cousins and fresh memories of the State's great man. Many an oldster is left who knew the great man's father, Washington Duke. The rich story...
Though "Old Man Wash" was almost illiterate, he was no "po' white," and the birthplace of his sons Brodie, Benjamin Newton ("Ben") and James Buchanan ("Buck") was no log cabin but a farmhouse surrounded by 300 acres of good North Carolina land. In 1865 the Civil War was over; Wash was 45 years old, had 500 in cash and a bag of tobacco that Federal soldiers had left on the farm. This he sifted, labeled Pro Bono Publico, sold in Durham. Then he built a log cabin on his farm, made more tobacco, a great deal more...
...hurry to be on our way over to Greece. But we had to remove the cowling from all three engines so that the local customs authority could examine the name plates on the engine crankcases and ascertain if the engines were the same as those named in our log books. Just what difference it could have made to him I was never able to learn. In Allerga [Italy] ... I once landed on a small intermediate military field due to shortage of fuel. I was immediately arrested and held over night because I had landed without permission?and permission...
...fundamentals in which student pilots are drilled, which was the cause of his undoing. In the first place he had neglected to fasten his safety belt which would have no doubt saved his life since he insisted in landing downwind. For more than a half hour, according to his log record, the pilot has attempted to land his ship after he noticed his engine was not functioning properly. He tried to land in three different fields, and failing each time, attempted to stretch his glide on the third try into a fourth field. In each instance the young pilot...
...parade of pushcart peddlers who vowed to vote for him. Plump and precise, bespectacled and benevolent, he kept repeating: "Chicago needs a business man for Mayor. . . . Take the circus from City Hall. . . . Chase away the grafters. . . . Bring honesty back into the Government. . . . Cut out its graft. . . . Stop the log-rolling...