Word: alight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...back to their homes last week in a thick and pungent fog. Economists did not mind the smell. In an effort to reduce Brazil's enormous stocks of coffee, a mountain of 530,000 bags of low grade coffee was piled up, soaked with oil and set alight. All day long the coffee volcano roared into the sky, darkened the heavens with the smell of a billion spoiled breakfasts...
Hunting over Sequoia National Park. Calif, for a stream upon which to alight an eared grebe spied a fine dark river with curiously straight and even banks. The grebe swooped, skidded down upon a wet. hard highway, died a few days later despite ministrations by kind park employes...
Lakes & Streams. When New Jersey's State Board of Commerce & Navigation ruled that aircraft must not alight on Jersey's inland waters, loud was the protest of the men who build, sell and operate seaplanes and amphibians (TIME, Sept. 29). H. Stewart McDonald Jr., counsel for the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce, and John J. Redfield for Curtiss-Wright Corp. confronted the Board last fortnight, wrung from it a modification of the ruling in principle: Instead of being a blanket restriction, the rule shall apply only to Lake Hopatcong. Each application for water landings elsewhere will be considered...
...seaplane flew from Long Island to Bermuda with an interrupting forced landing at sea. Last week while he was in Buenos Aires "good-willing," Williams, with Harry P. Connors (Navy-trained navigator) and Errol Boyd (onetime Royal Air Force-trained copilot) flew from Long Island to Bermuda, did not alight, banked and returned to their start in 17 hr. 8 min., first time such trip had been done. Their ship was the Columbia, Clarence D. Chamberlin & Charles A. Levine's 1927 trans-Atlantic transport...
...sparrowhawk started to chase a carrier pigeon across the Atlantic last week. When 500 miles out they met the Cunarder Caronia, both were contented to alight, to be put in a single cage where they completed their crossing in avian amiability...