Word: climbed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plane was sighted. He swooped down looking for barren ground, saw none, returned skyward. On the second attempt, his plane touched ground, but was forced to rise again because hero-worshipers insisted on dogging his path. His third attempt was rewarded with a clear field. Before he could climb out of his plane, the sea of the mob surrounded him-bowling over women, leaving the official reception committee stranded in the distance. Finally, the police succeeded in roping off the Spirit of St. Louis, and Captain Lindbergh was carried by automobile to U. S. Ambassador Alanson B. Houghton...
...instrument board of an airplane are also: an oil pressure gauge, gasoline gauge, thermometer (for motor temperature), turn-and-bank indicator, rate-of-climb indicator, altimetre, air speed indicator, compass, clock...
...will depend upon the two chambers whether the results of ten months of labor are to be consolidated in the budget, or whether all the work which we have accomplished will be rendered useless. . . . Should that occur we will fall back again into the abyss from which we have climbed,* and we will never be able to climb out a second time...
...Falls are always imminent in a child's life, and the first creeping stage, before he has begun to stand or walk, is the time to begin teaching him to avoid them. Long before a baby can climb onto a bed or chair he should learn to get safely down. Whenever the mother happens to be handling the baby on a bed, for instance, she should not lift him down when she has finished, but should turn him over onto his little tummy, slide him gently backward until his legs hang over the edge of the bed and continue...
...onlookers watched airmen rush into the air with seven planes to warn Chamberlin. Flying beside him, they held out wheels to signal his trouble. For 50 minutes the Levines, horrified, watched the plane circle hopelessly about, followed by an ambulance ready to pick up the bodies. They saw Carisi climb over the edge, struggle vainly, hanging head down, to fix the buckled wheel. Pilot Chamberlin. wrapped the children in blankets to save the shock of a crash. Then he slowly swooped down, ten feet from the ground flattened into a pancake stall, 'tail downwards. A wing dragged along...