Word: along
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...game" last week. Eleven Navy bombing planes played "enemy" against 25 Army defense planes under a torrid blue sky and at night, under a tropic moon. The "defenders" won. Threatening cruisers and submarines were "sunk" by shore batteries. "Invaders" landed troops, sweated through miles of jungle, reached locks along the Canal, but were finally "captured and killed." The Canal was saved...
Nevertheless, Eagles Davison and Fechet recommended doubling Panama's air defenses. Perhaps to hasten the passage of appropriations, they abandoned their plan to fly home along Peace-Dove Lindbergh's route through the Antilles. They returned as they had gone down, in long hops of their Loening amphibians to Managua, Vera Cruz, Tampico, Brownsville, Washington...
...There is no surer sign of it than the advent of the spring vacation-now for once the Easter vacation-and the completion of the first batch of April hours. O custom, what crime are committed in thy name! And then yesterday afternoon, as the Vagabond was wandering along the sylvan banks of the limpid, winding Charles-somewhere up near Watertown, just this side of the abattoir-wandering be it said with no ulterior purpose but perhaps with a lurking desire to see a burnished dove and prove the business about the newer iris and all the rest...
...work was written on a hot summer afternoon in 1862 to amuse a couple of little girls. Today in Harvard it is used, along with "Just So Stories," to illustrate philosophy lectures. Quotations from it head the chapter in a textbook of economic theory. The Mad Hatter and the Cheshire Cat are co-immortal with pious Aeneas and Tom Jones...
...black list is law. Dungeons and the rack are no longer good form; a much more subtle toxin does its work among the credulous of this day. The old sport of hushing up any one possibly opposed to the powers that be is revived; its victims are dragged along in a net of prejudice, without even the semblance of a just trial...