Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Crash. Fizz. Splash...
Three blasts of a whistle . . . "Put your wheel hard over!" . . . bells clamored full speed reverse . . . a red flare gashed the night . . . the crash...
...port, Dewey Kile: "I came off at 8 o'clock. At 8:30 I went to my bunk. At 10:30 I was awakened by a crash. Some of the cork from the lining of the inside of the submarine hit me in the face...
...from Italy to Crete and Egypt; 3) and nearer the Equator, at Singapore and in Sumatra. More than 200 humans perished; some 200 Sumatrans; many an Egyptian. At Santa Barbara, 3-year-old Colin Orr perished beneath a tumbling chimney. The town of Padang, Sumatra, collapsed in one thundering crash. Cairo reported over 4,000 houses in ruins. In Crete, the worst damage was demolition of archaeological treasures, especially at the Museum of Candia. Germany felt several shocks; also France, Italy, Southern Rhodesia and the seismograph at Georgetown University (Washington, D. C.). Studying their charts of the globe...
Died. Mr. and Mrs. John C. Dawson (of Chicago) and four Europeans, in airplane crash at Rossaupt, Czechoslovakia. Mr. Dawson was a lieutenant in the aviation during...