Word: approaching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Five airplanes are seen at 3 p.m. They approach in battle formation; then they get in line, flying low, and open fire with their machine guns. They drop bombs on Sandino's army, which now is beginning to retreat...
Walk along the ground with a breeze at your back, approach a fence, bend your knees, spring lightly into the air when you feel the tug of the balloon. You will sail over the fence so easily and land so gently that you will be surprised. Barns and trees can be surmounted with more vigorous leaps, usually requiring a light second push-up with the tip of the toe on the barn's roof or on the tree's outlying branches...
...huge sausage-shaped bag moving along at better than 50 knots. Should the sausage descend close enough, the whole Stadium would be darkened by its shadow, for two football fields laid end to end would not equal its 720 feet of length. Should it approach on a mission of destruction, it could open fire with a battery of artillery. And should a defending airplane squadron seek to rise over it and destroy it with bombs, the dirigible would send out five full-sized planes, carried underneath the bag and launched from built-in runways. Having left the Stadium, the ship...
...spectator started one of those noisy motion picture cameras buzzing at his elbow. Tommy stopped his swing at the top . . . asked the woman to observe golfing etiquette . . . but the damage had been done. . . ." "Emmet French put off his funeral until the 15th hole . . . just as he was about to approach, one of those diabolical movie cameras in the hands of some female started to reel . . . his spirit was broken. . . ." Perhaps Mr. Stanley Bloodgood (TIME, June 6) spoke from experience I Undoubtedly Miss ( ?) Rosalie Evans (TIME, June 6) will see that such incidents will be impossible on the fairways...
...Phillips first makes a careful classification of his group, dividing it into five classes "according to the varying degrees of success in their life careers." Group one, after the final selective process has been carried out, is made up of men who have excelled unmistakably and whose intellectual powers approach genius. Group two is composed of distincly high-grade men who have no attained true eminence; Group three might be said to hold the Average Man, not good, not bad; Group four is made up largely of the "unfortunates," who through ill health, lack of means, or absence...