Word: stanchly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: Recent issue (TIME, Sept. 16), Religious Department, stated Voliva stanch Fundamentalist believing earth flat. Get posted. Fundamentalists do not believe this...
...General Overseer Voliva, last week was a bad week for an invasion. Stanch fundamentalist, he believes the world "is square and flat like a sheet of paper," offers $1,000 to anyone who can disprove him. When the Graf Zeppelin started he predicted dire calamity awaited it. Informed that it had docked safely in Friedrichshafen, he sulked and refused to issue a statement. Smart Sister Locy was quick to take advantage of this. As a prime Voliva-baiting tactic she nightly challenged him to debate the earth's shape...
...fleetest fishing schooners were racing inshore to settle old rivalries. Gloucester folk, proud of their schooners, enthusiastic about this race of the last genuine U. S. sailing ships, had donated $20,000 to recondition canvas and repay owners for lost fish. Thousands lined the shore to watch the stanch, full-rigged craft course twice around an 18-mile triangle into the harbor. In the first two races, gentle inshore winds were insufficient to drive the schooners to the finish within the time limit. In the third, little Portuguese-American Progress gradually overcame Capt. Ben Pine's big Arthur...
...seemed that the old manager's patience was about to reap its reward; that he would once again assume the enjoyable role of pennant winner. His youngsters, however, proved not quite stanch enough to turn the trick; finished second to the world champion Washington Senators. Last year they were again good without being quite good enough, ended third from the top. Experts liked their 1927 chances...
...Bingham, Utah, a stanch steel cable furnishes trackage for the aerial tramway that connects the Utah Delaware Co.'s reducing plant with the mines. Last week as a high wind shrilled and blew, one Glen Higley, miner, rode the tram bucket. The cable thrummed; the slowly traveling bucket creaked and groaned as it swayed 200 feet above ground. Miner Higley felt frolicsome, peered over the edge. A bellows-gust of wind struck the swaying bucket neatly and pitched him out. Because he lit in a snow drift he will live...