Word: stallings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...over the Pacific towards his first stop?Suva, Fiji Islands. There he was delayed a week by storms ahead. On the 3,200-mi. water jump to Honolulu Kingsford-Smith, fumbling in the cockpit during a rainstorm, accidentally knocked down the wing flaps. The plane whipped into a stall, spun down 8.000 ft. into the swirling blackness before he could bring it out. Unnerved but undiscouraged. the aviators swooped into Pearl Harbor to complete in 25 hours the second leg of the world's most hazardous over-water air course...
...most prominent, yet almost the least known scientist in the world has at last overcome his aversion to publicity to permit a collection of various speeches and papers of his to be published in this book. It is avowedly an effort on the part of a friend to fore stall any misguided attacks on the personality of Einstein such as those to which most prominent men are subject. The purpose has been amply filled for we now have a record of his important acts and they reveal the character of the man as clearly as would a series of letters...
...Authors. Because they are poets, Robinson, Spender and Auden are not typical citizens of their respective countries. Old Poet Robinson, Maine-born, Harvard-bred, chose the uncrowded profession of poet at an early age. Establishing himself in Manhattan "in a sordid stall on the fifth floor of a dreary house," he kept himself and Pegasus fed by doing odd jobs, was once a construction inspector on the subway. Only U.S. poet ever reviewed by a U.S. President, Robinson got more attention when Theodore Roosevelt wrote an encomium of his poetry in the Outlook, and offered him a consulship in Mexico...
...Yorkers were suddenly reminded one day last week that they once (1911-17) had a U. S. Senator named James A. O'Gorman. The kindly, white-bearded old gentleman spent a quarter hour before a grand jury, trying to stall off an indictment of the executive committee of defunct New York Title & Mortgage Co. for allegedly issuing false and deceptive statements in connection with the sale of guaranteed mortgages. Now 74, a trustee of New York University, Mr. O'Gorman emerged from the grand jury chamber with tears in his eyes. A little later...
...attached to crack trains like the Twentieth Century. He is accompanied by a stablemate, usually a horse named Anarchy whom he likes, by his Negro handler, Johnny Gaines, and his toy poodle. In Chicago, Cavalcade was annoyed by too many callers. Trainer Smith put him in another stall, substituted a horse named Sleuth which visitors, when told it was Cavalcade, freely photographed...