Word: dead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...large circle. He may approach in any manner he pleases but must throttle his engine back when he reaches the height of 500 feet. In both landings, the motor must idle after the pilot has reached the designated altitude in order that the conditions simulate a dead-stick landing...
...didn't blow up. It didn't backfire. It didn't stop dead in the middle of the street. But it did beat a 1938 Ford on a traffic light; it sped backward up a hill at 35 miles an hour; and it hit 25 in five seconds from a dead start half-way up the same hill...
...traffic lights it leaves everything else behind because the operator merely steps on the throttle while the other cars are shifting gears. So fast is the pickup that the car will move from a dead stop as fast os the wheels will turn without skidding...
...seek ye the living among the dead?" began the Reverend Henry Sloane Coffin, President of the Union Theological Seminary in New York, in his Easter Sunday sermon before a capacity congregation in a Memorial Church gaily decorated with lillies, tulips, and daffodils...
...dead youth was the son of Town Counsel and Mrs. Fred W. Fisher of Winthrop. In addition to his parents he leaves a twin sister, Beatrice, 22-years...