Word: dives
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...take an extended journey on the swift Twentieth Century Limited with no stops or layovers; no dimming of lights by night, nor shading the glowing sun by day. TIME thrills me as a sensational airplane ride, with its gyrations, its quick twists and turns and glides-nose-dive, falling leaf, swallow flight, tail spin, loop-the-loop-would thrill and chill a landlubber. It impresses the reader (now the writer) as an extended straight-classical program of music-quite heavy for a mediocre audience. However, once a person is accustomed to TIME, he cannot help feel when reading other news...
Over 75 entries have been attracted by the five events open to individuals, the 50 yard free style event, the 200 free style, the 100 yard back stroke race, the fancy dive, and the beginners race. This last event is open only to men who have learned to swim this year...
Standing on the shore, Commander de Pinedo watched his two globe-trotting comrades dive from the plane and swim to safety. But soon the Santa Maria was a charred mass of wire and twisted metal. The heavy engine plunged hissing from its supports into 60 feet of water. Sick at heart, Commander de Pinedo cabled Premier Mussolini for another plane in which to carry on, for the glory of Fascismo, his four-continent itinerary, of which there remained to be completed a flight to the Pacific coast and up it to Seattle, thence east via Chicago, New York, Boston, Newfoundland...
...simultaneously, Woolsey to the left, Dargue to the right. The New York* continued as did the St. Louis, slightly higher and to the rear. The Detroit turned upward and away from the New York several hundred feet; then turned back to the right and went into a slight dive...
...Street (outside the Post offices), with 21 bombs fired, bands playing, revelry-to signalize the opening of a tunnel through the nearby Rocky Mountains (see p. 9). Dance halls threw themselves open. Radio reported a Manhattan prizefight (Delaney-Maloney, see p. 27) and "as a special feature" a death dive -a man hanging by his teeth to a pulley, sliding down a wire from the Post's roof to the street...