Word: meadow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hour and a half later, groping blindly through the pea-soup atmosphere over Jersey City, narrowly missing rooftops. Pilot John Salway saw a chance to land in a meadow, saw too late the wires that marked it as the county's 200-acre power plant. A wingtip sheared a 132,000-volt wire. A flash, a crash, a geyser of flaming gasoline ended the episode...
This is Author Spencer's first novel, yet it has been chosen by the Book-of-the-Month Club for April in preference to such books as Author Elizabeth Madox Roberts' The Great Meadow (TIME, March 3).* Book-of-the-Month selectors defend their choice by comparing Gallows' Orchard to the work of the late great Robert Louis Stevenson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Thomas Hardy...
...GREAT MEADOW-Elizabeth Madox Roberts-Viking...
...Show. Champions of six classes-a Pekingese, a wire-haired fox terrier, a beagle, an English bulldog, a shepherd and an Irish setter-paraded at last. The judges gave the gate to Delaware Kate, seemed wary of the famed shepherd, Giralda's Lola. Would they like Champion Meadow Lark Watchman, the merry beagle? A hound-dog is rarely judged champion of champions, and last year a collie beat a wire-haired fox-terrier. The judge went back to Giralda's Lola, and narrowed his job down to her, the beagle, and Pendley Calling of Blarney, the wire-haired...