Word: craft
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...speck over the ocean, then an ephemeral insect frame, then a droning, then a roaring seaplane that circled Darwin Heads and harbor, over the blasting sirens of steamers and warships, then a tired great gull floating on Fannie Bay off the naval aviation grounds. Mechanics swarmed to lift the craft (a big De Havilland biplane) ashore and fit her with wheels; she was to fly on, over desert and bush, to Sydney and Melbourne. And Pilot Alan Cobham, his hand wrung red with congratulations, regaled officials with the story of his 10,000-mile flight from England in 36 days...
...Catharine's on the shore of Lake Ontario last week. They were cheering, not for a Cabinet member, but for a sunburned man whose body rose out of the middle of a boat as narrow as a needle and whose arms, pulling, stretching, pulling, drew his craft past that of Johnny Durnan to win the single sculls of the Canadian Henley-Walter Hoover, no relative of the fleshy U. S. Secretary of Commerce...
Putting aside such thoughts, Rudyard Kipling received the gold medal with a smile, spoke a few words of courteous acceptance which circled the world's cables: "Recognition by one's equals and betters in one's own craft is a reward of which a man may be unashamedly proud. The fiction that I am worthy of that honor be upon your heads. . . . Yet at least the art that I follow is not an unworthy one. For fiction is truth's elder sister. Obviously, no one in the world knew what truth was until some...
Ashore many sad folk waited anxiously for the long unredeemed corpses of the mariners. And exhausted officers on the salvaging craft hoped that their patience-trying laborings begun last September would finally be completed. Twenty-four drowned sailors remained quite unconcerned with all the lugubrious consternation...
...masthead of the Coronette, the yacht in which he went around the world; it snapped at the halyards of the Aloha I and the Aloha II, famous sailing yachts. Mr. James handles his yachts himself. He holds master's papers which permit him to operate his craft in any waters. He is a former commodore of the New York and Seawanhaka-Corinthian yacht clubs...