What is "thornburg"

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Let me see: there was Ben Thornburg, and Beck Jolly, and Squire Bell, and Horace Bixby, and Major Downing, and John Stevenson, and Billy Gordon, and Jim Brady, and George Ealer, and Billy Youngblood--all A 1 alligator pilots.

If Thornburg had learned one thing, it was that one could not for long impose an artificial order on the chaos of the universe.

Thornburg blew the whistle, in acknowledgment, backed the steamer out, and made for it.

But a strange commingling of guilt and love drove her to do just the opposite of what Thornburg had asked of her.

There were five men besides himself: General Metcalf, Sam Emmett, Martin Brogan, Mercier and a short chesty man with rimless glasses introduced as Colonel Thomas Thornburg, who carried the heavy title of Director of Comparative Forensics and Clinical Pathology.

There were five men besides himself: General Metcalf, Sam Emmett, Martin Brogan, Mercier and a short chesty man with rimless glasses introduced as Colonel Thomas Thornburg, who carried the heavy title of Director of Comparative Forensics and Clinical Pathology.

Which was why Thornburg had helped form Ham's career, using his old-boy network in Washington to give his favourite son all the advantages his intelligence and moral strength warranted.