Word: aires
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...executive offices, the connecting link between all administrations since McKinley's is Clerk Rudolph Forster. President Hoover will never have to say "What do I do now?" because Clerk Forster, a slim gentleman with heavy spectacles and a solemn air, will be there at his elbow from the very first moment, anticipating, suggesting, directing, reminding, educating...
...great ant hill which is Manhattan, three sets of ant tunnels furrow under the Hudson River and emerge in the free air of New Jersey. One set of tunnels belongs to the Pennsylvania R. R.; another set is the Holland Vehicular Tunnels, completed two years ago; the third set is called the Hudson Tubes, a commuting device...
...fire of waste oil was burning on the tracks ahead. The motorman put on speed to pass over it. Suddenly there was a blinding flash. An automatic safety device set the brakes. The train was stalled with its third and fourth cars over the flames. Smoke filled the air. The ant passengers cursed, prayed and moaned, beat, trampled and rescued one another. Three more trains halted behind the first in the confusion...
...speaking proudly in recently acquired English. "After I have completed my work and become an old man, I hope to visit America. I may then be able to fly across the Atlantic. Twenty years from now a good-proportion of trans-Atlantic journeying will be done through the air...
...ring to the new bride, just as, 14 years and a month ago, she received it from her mother-in-law, Mrs. Richard Evelyn Byrd Sr., who still lives tranquilly at Winchester. . . . The discovery of Marie Byrd Land seemed likely to mark the end of Byrd explorations by air this year in Antarctica. Ice floes were closing in at the approach of antarctic winter. Last week the supply ship Eleanor Bolling was hurrying from New Zealand to succor the base bark City of New York in the fast-packing Bay of Whales...