Word: awayed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before an army pilot even starts the four engines of a Boeing Flying Fortress he has some 50 switches, gauges and gadgets to check, calls each off to his co-pilot as he goes so that nothing is missed. Before he taxies away from the line he has another score or two of check jobs to do, is thereafter kept busy, on the take-off and in the air and returning to land with a complicated set of controls...
...Summer "heat lightning" appears to be noise less, but it is simply the reflection along the horizon of lightning so far away that its thunder is usually not heard...
Then he teamed up with the Rothschilds and Sir Marcus Samuel, who had made Shell Transport & Trading Co. the most powerful oil company in England. They fought Standard Oil for a market in China, won it in spite of the millions of kerosene lamps Standard gave away. By this time Deterding was director of the combined companies, now known as the Royal Dutch-Shell group. For the next decade he busied himself grabbing up oil properties in Venezuela, Mexico, California...
...Waikato, New Zealand, hospital, Harold Ryder got bored lying in bed. To while away the time, he asked for a fresh egg, "set" on it steadily for 25 days, hatched a healthy white Leghorn chick...
...walls. Around 1773 the hall was remodelled to permit the erection of a large staircase, and its weird, barbarous decorations were covered with plaster. In the nineteenth century, when the building had passed into private hands and fallen into neglect, the roof collapsed and the plaster began to crumble away. Fortunately, about ten years ago, the paintings were removed before they had been ruined by the weather. Two of them, a superb lion and a winged serpent, now flank the doorway of the entrance of the Cloisters, a newly opened branch of the Metropolitan Museum in New York. Fogg Museum...