Word: crashing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...TIME'S customary understatement was missing. We are not only asked to visualize three distinct divisions of what must have been a confusing accident, but we are expected to do so through the medium of a whop! etc. when the writer has already said there were "three rending crashes." Does he mean that a whop! is a particular type of crash...
...mighty crash of timbers...
Until last week Eastern Air Lines was the only major airline in the world which had never killed a passenger.* Last week Eastern's magnificent record of 180,000,000 passenger miles without passenger fatality was spoiled by as cruelly unnecessary a crash as any in aviation's debris-strewn history...
...thud of broken skulls continued to be heard on U. S. city streets last week and country highways continued to resound with the crash of battered, torn and twisted metal. Removed during the week from the scene of automobile accidents in the U. S. were approximately 1,000 dead or dying persons. In Chicago, the National Safety Council was once more in convention to take stock of this appalling situation, consider what can be done, tell what is being done...
...passed over the zone of silence extending straight up from the field's radio beacon, radioed that he was backtracking to make a landing. It seemed most likely that while he was spiraling down, the sea loomed up at him too suddenly through the murk to escape a crash...