Word: uprighteously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gehlbach wrestling with the control stick, vainly trying it at every conceivable position," Commander De Witt C. Ramsey, the Navy's official observer, told newsmen afterward. "Using an old pilot's trick, he even stood upright in the cockpit, hoping the wind pressure on his body would right the plane. Finally, at 2,000 ft., with the earth rushing at him 200 ft. a second, he bailed out and descended easily while the plane hurtled into a nearby pine tree...
Fish & Vigor. After 30 years' study of primitive people, Dr. West on A. Price, Cleveland dentist, concluded that aborigines who eat coarse food which contains large amounts of minerals are strong and healthy. "The natives of the South Sea Islands are a hardy, upright race. Their women of 85 are as vigorous as American women of 50. They have but few wrinkles on their faces, they retain their teeth and live strenuous lives. Their principal food is fish, which is rich in mineral content, the building material for the body. Expectant mothers eat raw fish...
...requirements, he would have been no more amazed than the professional musicians who flocked last week to hear a new electrical organ on view at the Industrial Arts Exposition in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center. This new organ had no pipes. It was much smaller than a small upright piano and it cost only $1,250, as compared with $4,000 & up for most pipe organs...
...Louisiana detour cause the collision of two Chevrolets and the death of one of the animals. Next morning Judge Clummerhorn (Raymond Walburn), patriarch of Hope Center, finds Jane Dale (Wendy Barrie), runaway socialite, and Bill Shevlin (Spencer Tracy), duck-hunting lawyer, huddled, together in the car that has remained upright and apparently hating each other bitterly. Clummerhorn has the cars towed to his garage, lodges the young people in his hotel, arraigns them in his traffic court. When the cow, thinly disguised as veal stew, appears on the hotel's table d'hôte that evening, Jane...
...salary has been lower in my town than that of any local mail clerk, mail carrier, business manager or administrator, preacher, and of certain filling station employees and retail clerks. . . . Assets: one car (runs best in garage); three suits clothes (when wearing two of which I find a strictly upright carriage advisable) ; one pair worn shoes (but feet in good shape). Also one sense of humor, somewhat groggy or in a comatose state (seems to be result of trying to explain to children the value of education in North Carolina...