Word: amphibianism
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...Once in an early age of the world, there emerged a struggle between the Fish and the Amphibian for the dominion of the seas. At length after long and futile encounters. It was adjudicated that which of the two Classes could raise its voice in louder din, that would win the dominion of the seas. After many months of preparation, the great day of the contest dawned and millions upon million of the denizens of the deep, from the farthest corners of the sea, assembled upon the shore. All was soon ready. The judges took their places. The multitudes were...
Well into the stormy afternoon three flying officers-George F. McDermott, James H. Rothrock. William S. Pocock Jr. -took off from Floyd Bennett Field, N.Y. for Langley Field, Va. to pick up mail planes. Their amphibian was not in the air ten minutes before it became unmanageable in the stiff wind. They alighted in a heavy sea off Rockaway Point. When a Coast Guard and a Navy destroyer steamed up, the amphibian had drifted off into the dusk. The Navy boat finally picked up the flyers five miles away. Lieut. McDermott had been washed overboard. His exhausted companions were hospitalized...
...Amphibian speed trials by Major Alexander P. ("Sasha") de Seversky...
Gold Dollars & Cespedes. Congress did not meet until evening to designate a Provisional President but at 2 p. m. (while looting in Havana was at its worst) Sr. Machado and four aides arrived at General Machado Airport, 15 mi. outside the city. They chartered an amphibian plane but officials refused to let it take off until they obtained authority from the Cuban War Department-which took an hour and a half, during which Sr. Machado seemed calm, his entourage nervous. At 3:32 p. m. the amphibian roared away. That evening it came down in the lee of Andros Island...
...numerous occasions in the last 13 years airplanes have alighted on the lake, but until last week every one had to be dismantled and trucked down the mountainside. Reason: the rarefied atmosphere of Lake Tahoe (elev. 6,225 ft.) reduces airplane efficiency 30%.* Last week a Sikorsky amphibian of Varney Speed Lines flew from San Francisco Bay Airdrome to the lake, carrying Pilot Monty Sharp, Owner Walter T. Varney, two airline executives. After discharging his three passengers, Pilot Sharp managed to make the first take-off in history from Lake Tahoe...