Word: martin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Point anti-air defense base of Manhattan, soared, twisted, wobbled a deep blue cone of canvas, 15 ft. long, tapering in diameter from 5 ft. to 4 ft. Ahead, linked to the sky-target by a few scant hundred feet of rope, flew Air Lieut. Archie Smith in a Martin Bomber. From below anti-aircraft gunners launched torrents of gun fire, exploded thousands of pounds of powder into billions of cubic feet of gas. Sweated, toiled, emitted words peculiar to gunners...
...GOAT AND COMPASSES? Martin Armstrong?Harper ($2.00) You gaze down at people from the church steeple of Crome one sea-windy day: thin Susan Furly marching from door to door with the parish magazine; buxom Bella Jorden, preening her black silk on the porch of the Goat and Compasses; Rose Jorden talking furtively with some man through a hedge; old Mrs. Dunk, the charwoman, pottering about the graveyard; plump-breasted Sally Dunk, flirting boldly in the lane. Of an evening you hear the local males talking at the inn, Crome's moral centre. By night, the sleeping selves...
After the death of President Ernest DeWitt Burton late last May, Professors Billings, Tufts, Manly, Gale, Woodward and Laing of the University of Chicago knitted brows with Trustees Harold H. Swift (meats), Martin A. Ryerson (finance), Albert W. Sherer, William Scott Bond, Charles W. Gilkey, Thomas E. Donnelly, Robert L. Scott and Dr. Frank Billings, over the baffling question of Dr. Burton's successor. Every week they met, soon eliminating as unsuitable all prospects on the home campus, casting their eyes afield now upon this capable small-college administrator in the East, now upon that efficient personality...
Then, in innumerable languages, choir, prelates, congregation sang Martin Luther's militant hymn "Ein Feste Burg" ("A Mighty Fortress...
...Case & Martin Co., Chicago...