Word: aloft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ernest Jiinger was hailed by Nazis in Berlin last week as having perfectly caught the essence of their Kultur in his volume of essays entitled The Inner Experience of Battle. Excerpts: "All Freedom, all Greatness, all Culture are only maintained and spread aloft by wars. . . . Today in Germany we write poems in steel and symphonies in ferroconcrete. . . . War is the mightiest encounter of nations...
...dawn's crack, these gentlemen gathered at Lakehurst before 6 a. m. Loading the wealthiest cargo that ever went aloft, the dirigible circled over Manhattan until a heavy mist burned off enough to give the tourists a view, then headed north up the Hudson River. Over Yonkers at 8:53 a. m. the passengers heard cries from school yards where teachers delayed classes. At Sing Sing, the New York Times reported, "the ship had a different and silent greeting from convicts in the yard." At the Danbury Fair, barkers, fan dancers and blooded cattle paused to stare with their...
...Hague of Jersey City had delivered legions of his well-drilled yeomanry. The fresh army of enthusiasts rose and roared acclaim as Franklin Roosevelt marched out upon the platform on the arm of Son James. Standing at the rostrum he and John Nance Garner clasped hands and raised them aloft-the Democratic ticket...
...fighters, coast-defense planes and spare or training ships. Since offense is now considered the only real defense against a major air raid on a great metropolis like London, the duty of Britain's bombers under rough & ready Air Marshal Sir John Miles Steel is presumably to get aloft as fast as possible and be raining Death on enemy towns before London can suffer too great loss...
Golden mace aloft, Yale University's Provost Charles Seymour this week marched, between bristling rows of the Connecticut militia, through the leafy streets of New Haven to Yale's round-faced, granite Woolsey Hall. Behind him, in robes of green, brown and scarlet, gravely filed Yale's faculty, bound for the 235th annual commencement exercises of the University. To the families and friends of the graduates in their sombre caps & gowns, the occasion marked some 600 important personal milestones in some 600 young lives...