Word: valleyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fortnight ago Post and Rogers reached Juneau in their synthetic Lockheed, flew on to Dawson, Aklavik, Fairbanks, Anchorage. They visited the Government's Matanuska Valley farm colony, were on their way to Point Barrow when they came down one evening in a river near an Eskimo camp to inquire their way. Post tinkered the motor and after dining ashore with the natives, they took off for the ten-minute flight to Point Barrow. The plane had soared about 50 ft. when the motor sputtered. Post banked steeply to the right in a desperate effort to get back...
...summer of 1931, Charles Lindbergh and his wife flew from College Point, Long Island-by way of Maine, Ottawa, Aklavik, Nome, Karaginski, and Tokyo-to Nanking and the flooded valley of the Yangtze River. They were driven down by darkness in Alaska, by fog in Japan; they were lost, went hungry, almost wrecked, were caught in a burning building, discovered a stowaway in their plane, were nearly mobbed by famished Chinese, had to swim for their lives in the dangerous Yangtze when their plane went over. Last week Anne Morrow Lindbergh, in a disarmingly modest record of the flight, apologized...
...years A lot of hooey! Let's get behind a leader with some guts for the fight and in 90 days you'll see a reborn Republican Party in this country . . . and with the battle cry 'Save the Constitution' sweeping all before it. Just remember Valley Forge...
...plugs at a liberal arts curriculum on the campus at Yellow Springs, Ohio. Then for an equal period he works in an office, store, factory, newspaper or at any job which appeals to him. Antioch's President Arthur Ernest Morgan (now on leave as chairman of Tennessee Valley Authority) thinks of the work periods as a preparation for a full life and a substitute for the farm chores which bred resourcefulness in an earlier generation...
...years of my connection as regent of Municipal University or its predecessor I never discussed with a member of faculty or student body or regents any public utility subject except in one instance, when I approved before all nine members of Board of Regents the subject of the Tennessee Valley Authority-housing program being discussed in a class where the general subject of housing was being studied. This action on my part was made necessary because one recent now resigned disapproved discussion of a TV A subject in a university class. I respectfully ask correction of your misstatement...