Word: crusts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...July 31 the American world fliers were to start on the last lap of their journey around the earth's crust. On that day the fog curled its haunches and lay down like a great gray beast from the Orkney Islands to Iceland. For two days, it did not stir. The fliers waited; all was ready. They had made the brief trip from Brough to Kirkwall easily, with a tall wind following them; in Kirkwall the engines had been tuned for the last time, final preparations had been made, even to giving each plane a carrier pigeon. The patrol...
...election should be held. The term of Senator Nicholson does not expire until 1927. But Senator Adams decided not to contest for the remaining two years of the Nicholson term. Instead he will vie with Mr. Phipps for a full six, and let the small fry scramble for the crust...
Aided by this letter and lots of crust, Skinner got an engagement with William Davidge's Stock Company, which gave bad performances at the Philadelphia Museum. During the season 1877-78 he played 92 parts, "including Negroes and women...
...lack of facilities. Though overcrowded with visitors to the glass flowers, the University Museum nevertheless affords an ample home for miniature volcanoes and the dry bones of once terrifying beasts. The multiplicity of levels in the subway offers a unique opportunity for a detailed study of the earth's crust; and any intensive study of the Charles is certain to dispel unscientific notions of the harmlessness of river water...
...made seems highly unlikely, and the theory, therefore, is probably unsound. Indeed, the report ventures to suggest that no disturbance of the soil structure should ever be permitted. For it seems probable that within a few years the whole mass of substance will have consolidated itself into a firm crust, entirely concealing the original flooring, and upon this surface the scuffle of feet and the scraping of chairs will be almost noiseless, much to the benefit of the lecturer...