Word: roped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Near Shenandoah, Iowa, Raymond Funk, flyer, survivor of five airplane crashes, was hit on the chin by the board seat of a child's swing. The rope encircled his neck, choked him to death...
...better than the rest of Author Buck's creatures because he runs away first. Small and incredibly clumsy, he is the most charming of Author Buck's captives which include a quarter-ton elephant, a pot-bellied monkey, a white fuzzy creature which runs up & down on a rope...
...rowing tradition at 2, a new comer to be sure in this veteran crew, but earning his salt. . .At bow we come to Waldo Holcombe who carries the family tradition from lecture platform to the boat house. . .Well intrenched in the cox's seat for three years, at the rope's end, presides Ham Bissell, the only man who can see where the crew is going, and guide it on its straight and narrow path...
Sailor Charles ("Buddy") Cowart, 19, refused to tell the Press how he dangled for two hours on a rope beneath the wind-tossed U. S. S. Akron over Camp Kearny, Calif, unless the Press would pay him (TIME, May 23). But in Tulsa, Okla. last week Sailor Cowart could not resist spinning a yarn for the home folks. He described how he and two mates of the ground crew were jerked high into the air when the airship broke her moorings...
Eleven of the twelve Governors of the twelve Federal Reserve Banks met extraordinarily in Washington last week to un-kink another bad knot in the credit rope with which they are trying to pull the country out of its economic ditch. From Boston New York and Philadelphia, from Richmond, Atlanta and Dallas, from Cleveland, Chicago and St. Louis, from Minneapolis and San Francisco, they answered the call for consultation from Eugene Meyer, Governor of the Federal Reserve Board, overlord of the nations credit and currency. Only George Henry Hamilton Governor of the Kansas City Reserve Bank, failed to appear...