Word: brisking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...places in the U. S. suitable for soaring and gliding, Elmira, N. Y. is one of the best.* High hills on three sides of a valley assure the necessary upcurrents whenever a reasonably brisk breeze blows. Perversely, except for an occasional gusty storm, the wind failed to blow for nearly all of 14 days of the National Glider Association's second annual meet which ended last week. Nearly 30 gliding and soaring craft (20 of them the famed Franklin type) were assembled for the meet. For ten days the pilots tried with little success to make sustained flights. Then...
...bill for firewood. Mary Berry, last survivor of the 18th Century, who "could even make Frenchmen hold their tongues; she could even make Englishmen talk." Strachey pays his unrespectful but never impertinent respects to six fellow-historians: Hume, Gibbon, Macaulay, Carlyle, Froude, Creighton. He calls Macaulay's brisk rhetoric "that style which, with its metallic exactness and its fatal efficiency, was certainly one of the most remarkable products of the Industrial Revolution...
...kept rendezvous with her trimotored Ford refuel plane over Fairbanks that evening only 30 min. behind time. Throttled down to comparatively slow speeds the planes flew together while the Fort Worth drained 200 gal. from her nurse above. Then both flew on to Nome, made contact again in a brisk wind. A load of 435 gal. was needed to complete the flight. After taking 300 gal. the Fort Worth became unmanageable in the wind. Robbins & Jones could not hold her steady enough to complete the transfer. Finally they gave up, landed at Nome, announced they would try again with...
...three Harvard eights went for their last row on the Charles late yesterday afternoon, the Jayvee and third boats embarking first for a short excursion downstream, and returning immediately to the Newell boathouse. Shortly afterward the first boat set out for the Basin at a brisk paddle, proceeding below the Technology boathouse. On the return trip Cassedy set a slightly higher beat, and was rowing a good 40 when the shell passed under the Lars Anderson Bridge. From today until the end of the week the squad will be free to do as it likes. Whiteside feeling that the danger...
...Hearts" and "Soldier on the Shelf" (Columbia)?The lilting waltz from the German film, Zwei Herzen, coupled with a brisk, military bit. Ben Selvin plays them...