Word: aloft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This spring, with a crew of five intruding famed Sherman Hoyt, who has navigated the Atlantic on everything except an inflated tire tube, the Dorade sailed for Norway in May. She arrived in 24 days after encountering two gales in one of which Roderick Stephens had to go aloft for three hours to repair a spreader on the mainmast...
...Seafarer turned in for the airport at Bridgeport, Conn., 60 mi. short of Floyd Bennett. It buzzed low over the field but instead of heading into the wind, only safe way of taking off or landing a plane, it came downwind, zoomed aloft again. The field manager hopped into a plane, tried to lead the Mollisons to earth by making a landing into the wind in the floodlights. It was no use. The Seafarer, after circling wretchedly six times, stuck to its curious course, inevitably overshot the field, crashed in a swamp...
...have not, as head of the Department of Aeronautics, one plane in all Germany which I could have sent aloft yesterday. The incident shows how defenseless Germany is. Communistic planes might come over here any time...
...celebration. In vast St. Peter's Square, late in the afternoon, 50,000 Romans and pilgrims waited. Presently from St. Peter's central doorway appeared the Pope, apparently kneeling but actually sitting at a priedieu on a platform borne by twelve husky men. Pius XI bore aloft a gem-encrusted monstrance containing the Host.* Prelates held a damask canopy over the Holy Father's head and stirred the warm air about him with ostrich-plumed flabella. Mace-bearers, torchbearers. Noble Guards and Swiss Guards walked at his side. The crowd cheered. Then 18 cardinals...
Circling back, the Pope approached an altar on St. Peter's portico, behind which was a great tapestry of the Last Supper. He turned, held aloft the monstrance, pronounced solemn benediction. At once floodlights swept his white-robed figure. With his procession he re-entered St. Peter's, dark, obscure. Then suddenly the 50,000 watchers beheld the entire dome, the roofs, the porches and balustrades of St, Peter's burst into flames of thousands of flaring torches. The crowd cheered, while the basilica blazed like a vast birthday cake. As they went back home, in trams...