Word: marly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...places where no plane had been before, four of these amphibian planes had made their way back home to prove that airplane travel is practicable in any place through every kind of weather. Over Buenos Aires two of the original six planes had crashed, two flyers were killed (TIME, Mar. 7). The rest continued their triumphant way. This week the "Good Will" aviators were to fly leisurely to Washington to be there in time to take part in the "All-American Aircraft Display...
...distinguishing between florid fantasy and sincere interpretation when it is told how Saul overcame the snuffling, pad-padding, loathsome shapes of evil conjured by Bar-jesus of Paphps. The Celtic love of melodramatizing the supernatural, in sheer romance a virtue but here a weakness, crops out often enough to mar the fine simplicity with which more familiar miracles are treated-Saul's epileptic vision in a sandstorm on the Damascus road; making the cripple of Lystra leap up and walk; breathing life into the broken boy, Eutychus; surviving the viper's bite at Melita, island of honey...
...forbade the Armour Grain Co. (corporation entirely separate from Armour & Co., meat packers) from further trading on their grain exchange. Thus the directors punished the company for the knavery of Armour Grain Co. employes?their thievery, their defrauding of the Farmers Cooperative Grain Marketing Corp. with burnt grain (TiME, Mar. 14), and their desecration of the Board's prestige...
Sirs: Last week the anniversary of the death of "the greatest Jew of modern times"- was recognized by many admiring people throughout the world (TiME, Mar. 7). Your tribute to the memory of this great, good man was to publish an article under the head EDUCATION, in which you pictured an attic recluse spending his leisure hours in demoniac glee watching spiders fight. The article reminds us of President Coolidge's Washington's Birthday address in which our worthy President took little cognizance of the truly great things that our First President embodied, and centred his attention...
Because fighting Spanish bulls have refused to splinter their horns against humanely steel-armored horses in the bull ring (TIME, Mar. 7), five new types of rubber, canvas and fibre armor were tried out, last week, at Madrid. Bull horns gored deeply through all but the fibre armor, killing four out of the eight horses on which the protective armor was tried out. Madrid bullfight fans howled disapproval of the whole proceeding...