Word: soars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Walter Beaver, Berwyn, Pa. electrician: the 32nd annual American clay target championship at singles; with 198 birds out of a possible 200. to 197 for Tracy Lewis of New York; on an overcast afternoon in an east wind that made the targets dip and soar: at Pelham Manor, N. Y. ¶ The New York Giants. 4-to-1: a baseball game against the Chicago Cubs, in which famed left-handed Pitcher Carl Hubbell tied the modern major-league record of 20 consecutive League victories established by left-handed Giant Pitcher Rube Marquard in 1911 and 1912; in New York...
...commonplace may yet thrill to one of nature's greatest sights -a giant condor taking off. Trotting down a slight incline with wings half spread, gathering speed, nosing up at full stretch, picking favorable currents, it spirals up, up, up 5,000, 10,000, 15,000 ft. to soar for hours without one visible motion of its magnificent wings...
...this 225 million year old fossiliferous monstrosity was uncovered by a recent Harvard expedition in the "red-beds" of Northwest Texas. On inspection, one must try to visualize a gargantuan turtle with a vertical and flattened rather than a horizontal and curved shell. A series of long bony vertebrae soar skyward in transcending gothic splendor...
While the Varsity soar to new heights, Clark Hodder's Freshman team hasn't looked any too good in its opening games. Still undefeated the Yardlings have yet to face any serious opposition, and certainly they can't hold a candle to Austie Harding's outfit of last year or Roberts' team of two years back...
Sirs: In a year which saw man's greed, stupidity, inhumanity, soar to unprecedented heights, one must look to physical rather than intellectual qualifications to define the Man of the Year. Peak product of the youngest race an symbol of its ascendancy-inevitable Jesse Owens...