Word: plane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...concise mathematical pattern. His pupils then analyze speeches, political plat forms, advertising, riddle them full of holes. Not only did Dr. Fawcett's pupils rate high er than other high-school youngsters in tests on reasoning ability, but they got the best marks in the State in plane geometry. The authors proudly display in their book the slogan over the doorway to this class : PRIZE THE DOUBT LOW KINDS EXIST WITHOUT. Less enthusiastic was one parent, who complained: "[My daughter] has become too cynical and is given to a great amount of quibbling...
Next day, almost in answer to Mr. Chamberlain's expectations, two more British vessels were sunk. The freighter Thorpeness, was hit by an aerial torpedo from a Rightist plane outside Valencia harbor, went down with 7,000 tons of grain. The freighter Sunion, formerly of Greek registry, was showered with incendiary and explosive bombs, burned for six hours and sank...
...Last week in Astoria, Ore., William and Emil Urell, operators of a mink farm, appeared before a board of officers from a nearby Coast Guard station, claimed the U. S. Coast Guard owed them $6,750 for damages. Right after the whelping season, they testified, a Coast Guard amphibian plane whizzed over their farm within 150 feet of the ground. The mother minks, terror-stricken by the drumming racket, dashed wildly about the cages, seized their 270 mink kittens, gobbled them up. Attorneys for Messrs. Urell cited two previous court decisions as basis for their claims. Astoria townfolk...
...room jests. There was a fanciful yarn about India's long-delayed independence; the guess was that it might be coming via Imperial. Spicier was a tall tale about a woman who gave birth during a flight to India. Politely taxed by a flight clerk for boarding the plane in her condition, she became highly indignant. "I'll have you know," she replied hotly, "that when I got on this ship I was not pregnant...
...storm chased it back past Bakersfield, then past Fresno, then swallowed it up. Last week, a young Fresno prospector, H. O. Collier, saw something that glittered as he clambered up near the top of 9,000-ft. Buena Vista in the Sierra Nevadas. It was the wreckage of the plane, smashed to bits but unburned. Strewn along the slope were the bodies of the victims. Promised by TWA for Prospector Collier's find...