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Southern sport writers call Georgia Tech's team "The Golden Tornado," but for all the explosive grandeur of that name Georgia could do little against Flanagan and his friends from Notre Dame. Score: Notre Dame 13, Georgia Tech...
...delay progress to windward. . . . Severe thunderstorms and disturbances with strong vertical air currents may be avoided by changes of course, as these disturbances usually extend over a comparatively small area and move at a rate of speed well below that of an airship. Thus the airship can avoid the tornado, and may prove to be more secure in Kansas than a stone house...
...tornado of favor was caused by Communist Deputy Bendini, who declared the expense "scandalous." Virtually the entire Chamber screamed him down and whatever else he had to say was lost in the noise...
...through De Soto, Bush, West Frankfort, Parrish, passing about five miles north of Herrin. Then it seems to have stopped again, 20 or 30 miles to McLeansboro and Carmi, crossed the Wabash River into Indiana, promptly demolishing Griffin and razing half of Princeton. Apparently this was done by one tornado or a recurrent one, because the path of the storm is a mathematically straight line on the map. Subsidiary storms invaded Tennessee and Kentucky, not without death and destruction...
From Murphysboro to Parrish, little remained in the track of the tornado. .Parrish was completely wiped out. Murphysboro, a town of about 11,000, was more than half destroyed. Several schools, filled with children, were wrecked with heavy loss of life. Fire succeeded the storm in many places; and, still later, gangrene set in among the wounded...