Word: patches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Plight. The White House seemed a long way from John Farmer's withered little acres but he was hopeful. His corn was gone. His well was dry. His pasture was a tinder box. His cows were hungry. His vegetable patch was a mass of brown weeds. His supply of cash was dangerously low. He already owed the county bank more than he could pay this year or next. Typhoid fever had broken out nearby. John Farmer faced a bad winter...
...outside his cockpit, cursed the compasses that pointed crazily to East and West. Beside him stolid Dutch Evert Van Dyk held the controls, stared straight ahead. In the cabin behind him Radioman John Stannage frantically worked key and dials. Navigator J. Patrick Saul searched in vain for a patch of sky that he might fix his sextant to a star. Now their latest radio bearing showed them 175 miles east of the Cape, when they had thought it only 75 miles...
...daughter Alicia), had not suffered a serious accident. Last week Capt. Becker flew a $25,000 Laird biplane from Roosevelt Field to Poughkeepsie, N. Y., there overshot the field, cracked up. He climbed into another Laird, reached Roosevelt Field 2 hr. after his first takeoff, struck a soft patch of ground, cracked up. Said Capt. Becker, emerging still unhurt from the second wreck: "Well, I guess that's a record...
Last month Editors Edward T. Horn and Lester A. Blummer of the "Berry Patch" (funny) column in the Cornell Daily Sun decided that the time had come to celebrate the 150th birthday...
...seems only fitting that the Lampoon, which did much toward causing the breach in relations almost four years ago, should be the first to make an attempt to patch them up again. The CRIMSON, Harvard's daily, expresses the opinion that undergraduate feeling is more than cordial towards Princeton and hope that soon the quarrel can be settled...