Word: brooding
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Because landing gear cuts down speed and range, the Navy plans to fly the Akron's brood without gear in time of war. When operating on the high seas, both wheels and pontoons would be equally useless in a forced water landing. Unless they can reach a friendly shore and make a fishtail landing, pilots unable to return to Mother Akron will be counted as lost...
...Corp. at Akron, Ohio continues to reverberate with pounding and riveting as the U. S. S. Macon, second of the Navy's modern dirigibles, slowly takes shape. If present specifications are followed she will be practically identical with her great sister. Like the Akron she will pouch a brood of planes. But, ship-like, she will have a sleeping bag for enlisted men. instead of the Akron's four-man staterooms. Experience has enabled the builders to cut down weight by 8,000 lb., increase speed. That the Macon may be pounded and riveted to completion next January...
...fate of a Last Survivor, the lone lingering member of a species. Mateless, childless, friendless, he can only sit and brood upon the fate that has left him in a world whence all his kind has vanished. Such a bitter fate is that of the heath-cock of Martha's Vineyard. Once his kind filled the woods from Maine to Virginia, but hunters' guns reduced their numbers to a single flock which found refuge on Martha's Vineyard. Forest fires decimated the flock until in 1927 there remained only eleven heath cocks, two heath hens. Next year...
Surrounded by pupils, folding camp stools, easels, paint boxes and little bottles of water, a lady instructor of the New York School of Design invaded Brooklyn last week with the intention of setting her brood to copying the water colors of the late great John Singer Sargent and the late great Winslow Homer in the Brooklyn Institute of Arts & Sciences...
...Dressler's troubles start when she marries the inventor whose children she has helped to rear. They resent the marriage; when the inventor dies, leaving all his money to his wife, they suggest that she has murdered him with an overdose of strychnine. The only member of the brood who defends her is a blacksheep named Ronnie (Richard Cromwell) who is killed while flying to the trial in which the old nurse is acquitted. She gives her traducers the money she has inherited and is last seen as a menial again, in service with another family, the smallest member...