Word: spill
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...truck and boat (equipped with only one paddle), Amateur Anderson ferried his transmitter and receiver to a high spot six miles across the flood-swollen Wabash River from Shawneetown. When it became obvious that the Ohio would spill over Shawneetown's flood wall, Shawneetown's residents were evacuated to Indiana and Kentucky on orders received over Ham Anderson's radio. Evacuation was effected without loss of a single life. And after four raw, wet, sleepless days and nights, Ham Anderson went home...
...finally, the real purpose of this letter is not to spill out my indignation concerning these misconceptions of the Crimson, but to inform those men who will be sophomores next year and who have the desire but not the will to concentrate in the Classics, that the reward of the effort and the facilities for instruction will be much greater than they may have been led to think. J. F. Hayward...
When he was 17, Lee Townsend bought his first race horse, Ophelia Martin. He rode her and other men's horses at county fairs in Illinois for a couple of years before his left foot was smashed in a spill. By that time Lee Townsend knew that he wanted to be an artist. So with the money he had saved he went to Chicago's Art Institute for two years, then to Manhattan, where he worked in a drawing class with Mahonri Young. Since then, except for one frugal year in Paris, Artist Townsend has been back...
...Sailor's moll and an old Lincoln touring car, jump the road gang, kidnapping Druggin. What follows is the year's most exciting cops and convicts chase, involving the usual race with a freight train for road crossings, two sensational car crack-ups and one motorcycle spill. Kennedy gets away but goes back to vindicate Jameson's faith in him when he discovers that the yard captain's interest in May is of a lofty order. Best shot: striking convicts screaming in the locked cellblocks after the lights have been turned...
...Emile Allais of France: the world's downhill ski racing championship; by shooting down Les Houches, Alpine run that drops 3,070 ft. in two miles, in 4 min. 3 2/5 sec., without a spill; in a snowstorm, at Chamonix, France. The women's champion, famed Christl Cranz of Germany, got down a less steep course...