Word: danes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...them, shifted their moorings, pounded the Direction against the rocks (TIME, July 29, 1929). They got ashore without trouble, saved some of their belongings, with mixed feelings watched the Direction sink. Next day Kent set out overland to find help. An Eskimo guided him to Narsak, where a friendly Dane received him hospitably in terrible English, and sent for the Governor. Allen and "Cupid" returned to the U.S., Kent stayed on, painted pictures (some of them on bed-sheets), made friends with the Eskimos, had a good time generally. In the autumn he went home by way of Denmark. Rockwell...
...made by Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) who made four models equipped with paper propellers. Many later efforts undoubtedly are lost to history, but in 1871 a helicopter of obscure fate was built in France by M. A. Penaud. Experiments were made with slight success in 1905 by the Dane, Ellehammer; in 1906 in France by the Brazilian, Santos-Dumont, in 1907 by M. Bréguet. By 1923 Austria had its Petroczy; Great Britain its Brennan; France its Damblanc, Oemichen and Pescara; Spain its la Cierva. In the U. S., meanwhile, Henry Berliner, Baltimore aircraft builder, had spent a fortune...
Although the Booths had only just arrived in Denmark, although Clifton has a long record of safely conveying Mr. Booth to and from his office in the Buhl Building at Detroit, suddenly a sporty young Dane, one Einar, persuaded impeccable Clifton to take out the U. S. Minister's car after dark, to pick up two young frokener...
...late great Robert Marion LaFollette, brother of Wisconsin's Senator Robert Marion ("Young Bob") LaFollette, he has a name and a talent which might work political magic in his State. But Brother Phil, lawyer and lecturer at the University of Wisconsin, short-time District Attorney of Dane County, whirlwind campaigner for Brother Bob, was in no hurry. He silenced "drift talk," insisted he was "too young" (he is now 33), kept Progressive leaders waiting for his services (TIME...
...Sophomores are K. G. Balfour '32, John Dane, Jr. '32, H. C. Dickinson '32, J. W. Appel '32, and T. G. Whiteside...