Word: crosse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Alive 1819-1874, he was first president of the "first" Cuban Republic which consisted only in a revolt against Spain. He committed suicide, sooner than be taken Spain's prisoner. The Cespedes cross is Cuba's highest honor, bestowed only on heads of governments and never before on a U. S. president. *Small antelope. Its Dutch name means "diving buck"-from its facility at plunging through thickets, hedges...
...fired at from the shore-probably as a hint to keep midstream lest the wash endanger a levee. The Red Cross quickly collected a $5,000,000 relief fund, began a drive for $5,000,000 more. Pestilence and curtailed water supply threatened crowded refugee camps. Governor John E. Martineau of Arkansas asked the Red Cross for enough smallpox and typhoid vaccine to inoculate 25,000 persons. Senator Joseph T. Robinson of Arkansas suggested a special session of Congress to provide funds for relief work; President Coolidge decided that the emergency would be over before Congress could assemble and make...
...Alsace, France. Last week, after a long conference with Premier Mussolini about building Bugatti automobiles in an Italian factory, Signer Bugatti revealed that he is also making a Bugatti boat-an all-steel "cigar," 82 ft. long, 10 ft. in diameter, which he said will be able to cross the Atlantic in two days. It is designed to travel half-submerged. Tubes in the upper surface of the whalelike hull inhale air. The engines, developing 2,400 horsepower, will propel the craft 62 m. p. h.* It will carry eight passengers and enough fuel for 60 hours cruising...
...last week, were Lieut. Commander Noel Davis and Lieut. Stanton Hall Wooster, crack flyers of the U. S. Navy. They were making their last test flight in the trimotored American Legion, preparatory to attempting a non-stop jump from the U. S. to Paris. Loaded with enough gasoline to cross the Atlantic, their plane roared along the ground at Langley Field, near Hampton, Va. Gradually, almost painfully, it rose to a height of some 50 feet. A row of trees, planted years ago by an industrious pioneer, now rose up to thwart these air pioneers. Lieutenant Wooster turned the beak...
...aerodina" will be submitted to all governments with the recommendation that it replace the present usage (i. e.: "aeroplane" in English, aeronaut in French, luft-schiff in German, arioplano in Italian, etc.). 3) Aerodinas must hereafter keep to the left when following railway tracks, roads, rivers, etc.; and when crossing any of these land highways shall cross over at right angles to the land highway. 4) Aerodinas belonging to the League of Nations will be designated on their wings by the letters "A D N" through which two parallel lines are drawn. Aerodinas thus designated will, it is recommended...