Word: wind
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...them gold) and presuming to ask why his son, Howard Youmans, had been absent from school so often lately. Mrs. Youmans paused for breath. Well, said Teacher Dougherty, Howard had been absent a lot and- "I know more'n you do!" shouted Mrs. Youmans, catching her wind. "You don't know enough to teach the children good manners. I know the law. My husband's a policeman!" Teacher Dougherty indicated that if Mrs. Youmans was going to make a disturbance she would have to leave, but her voice died in her throat. Mrs. Youmans' eyes blazed...
...Wind...
...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...
...spite of the light head wind the two crews rowed well and the race was close until the last quarter mile, when De Normandie raised the beat so effectively that his crew forged ahead to a decisive victory...
...gust of wind blew out the storm doors and plate glass front of the Goldfield Hotel at Tonopah. Nobody cared. There was a fresh "strike" at Barrel Springs, five miles from Weepah. The rushers swerved thence, eddied back, chattered, milled around, boasted, dreamed...