Search Details

Word: all-out (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1924-1924
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...moon-cocked their eyebrows, scratched their polls. The cause of their wonderment was a ship that moved through the water at an astounding rate. It had no engine, this ship; it was innocent of masts, sails, rigging; its crew was so small as to be negligible; but-greatest marvel of all-out of its superstructure reared two incredible cylinders, 65 ft. high, which twirled and twirled. Harnessed, by some obstruse mechanical slight, to the wind of their twirling, the ship moved through water. It was the sailless ship of Herr Anton Flettner. Before it acquired its two incredible cylinders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Hoax? | 11/17/1924 | See Source »

| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | Next