Word: aloft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There Masefield saw her. "I have seen much beauty, but she was the most beautiful thing. She was so splendid, and so distresst: she was also moving as though she were alive." In all, the Wanderer made ten long voyages, but never one without some accident. "Men fell from aloft and overboard from her; others died, or broke bones, in her; she lost some spars; she took charge of her tugs; her cargoes shifted; she was on fire once and ashore four times." Finally, on April 14, 1907, at anchor in the Elbe River at two o'clock...
...purpose of raising the bells aloft to the top of the tower, a scaffolding will be built on the Mount Auburn Street side of the house. The temporary structure will be constructed to support a weight of 11 tons or more, since the most massive of the bells which will be hoisted weighs approximately 10 tons...
...quiet. And the tower itself! What happy stroke of artistry decreed its color scheme? See it for the first time on a summer's day of blithe blue air, with white clouds flying, and you will think it a bit of sky caught by the wings and pinioned up aloft there white of cloud, blue of heaven, and gold of the gun. Hellenic, too; for these are the colors which everywhere in Greece fill the eye and flood the mind...
Gasbag Derby. From Cleveland Airport one afternoon last week six gasbags cast off into a leaden sky for the 19th James Gordon Bennett International Balloon Race. Late the next afternoon the two favorites, the U. S. Goodyear and Belgian entries were still aloft, fighting it out for the second leg of the third Bennett...
...rewards: possibly $30,000 in gifts, contracts for advertising and appearance at fairs. The champions might well have consoled themselves that lack of enthusiasm over their exploit would serve to forestall any early attempt to better it. But in Portland, Ore., the Stinson monoplane On to Oregon was taken aloft for just that purpose by the Brothers Tex, Dick & Bud Rankin, noted airmen of the West...