Word: berth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pilots give thunderstorms a wide berth if possible, for within their cores often lies turbulence in which no airplane can live. A half-hour after he had left Palm Beach, Pilot O'Brien was in the thunderstorm belt: the ship was snapped up into the most violent flying some of his veteran passengers had ever seen. Why he landed when he did is still a subject for investigation, which CAB started immediately. Meanwhile, Co-Pilot Crabtree quoted Captain O'Brien as saying that one of the aileron controls had snapped in the storm. If that should be found...
...Rapp, who still writes the Maxwell House script, collaborated on material for Snooks. A couple of years later Fanny ran through the Snooks skit as a guest of Maxwell House. Signed up as a permanent attraction on the program, Miss Brice cooed, gurgled and whined her way to a berth in radio. Now 49, she boasts: "I could do Snooks blind. I don't have to work into it. It's part of me. It's like stealing money to get paid...
With Tom Lacey back in the 175-pound berth, the grapplers face Yale at New Haven this afternoon in what should prove a very tight battle, while the Yardlings take on the undefeated '44 Blues, also at Yale...
Because of this, the Club will be able to sponsor a Shore School for the purpose of teaching the elements of sailing and seamanship to those members of the University who wish to learn how to sail or who need additional instruction in seamanship for a summer berth on a boat...
Last week Wendell Willkie arrived in the U. S. gusty with a new enthusiasm: meteorology. He had been in on an exciting experiment. At i a.m., high over the dark Atlantic, he had tumbled out of his berth and into the navigating room of Pan American Airways' homebound Dixie Clipper. With President Juan Terry Trippe and other Pan American officials, Willkie eagerly watched the instrument panels as the huge ship droned along at various altitudes, feeling out strange east winds on her tail. At 4,000 to 5,000 feet the passengers' smiles were broadest, the plane making...