Word: doves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...record to 318 m. p. h., soon lost it again to Britain. Italy's efforts to regain the record took a frightful toll. She had pinned her hopes on a Macchi seaplane with a 2,800-h. p. Fiat motor driving two propellers. One after another these machines dove into Lake Garda, carrying to death in turn the crack pilots of the high speed school-Monti, Bellini, Dal Molin. Neri-until last month when Agello triumphed. British airmen maintain that the Macchi's phenomenal speed is due to a reduced wing span which makes its landing speed more...
...Grob 1G saved the life of an 18-year-old Belmont girl who jumped off the Weeks Memorial Bridge yesterday afternoon in an attempt to end her life. Grob, who was walking along the Cambridge bank of the river, saw the girl, fully clothed, in the water and immediately dove into the icy-cold stream, swam about 20 feet to reach her, and brought her back to the shore...
Ticen J. Byram, 56, hitched up his team one cold morning last fortnight, drove with his wife into Dove Creek, Colo. When they got back to their ranch that afternoon Mrs. Byram hurried into the house to build a fire. "I'll be in as soon as I put the horses away," said her husband...
...scorching his coat. At first Newshawk Saffer thought it was "some fool firing blank cartridges." Not until he saw Mayor Cermak drop did he realize what was happening. Then he wriggled out of the crowd, raced by Mr. Roosevelt who was calling out "I'm all right," and dove to a telephone under the park bandstand to send a flash...
...sporting sons, Harold Stirling and William Kissam II, were in the southern U. S., but her daughter Consuelo, one-time pawn of her most amazing social gambit, was there. Outside in the Rue Monsieur the dove-colored Paris dawn was brightening. The old lady, appearing to suffer no pain, lay comatose. But on her square, wide-mouthed face there was a look of concentration, as though, desperately pressed for time, she must reconsider, revalue the countless acts and decisions of her extraordinary lifetime. Suddenly, at 6:50 a. m., her features relaxed...