Word: dragging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scientific data. It had the financial support of the King of Sweden and Norway and of Alfred Nobel. His balloon, an elaborate affair, measured 97 ft. from the top of the bag (wt. 1½ tons) to the bottom of the two-decked basket. It was rigged with drag ropes and sails, by which Andree was confident the prevailing south winds would blow it over the Pole, 700 mi. away...
...supper. Occasionally beaters instead of grouse are hit, and then damages must be paid. One U. S. sportsman who gave $500 for a slight injury warned his friends that his generosity had stimulated other bearded gillies to come too near the guns. When a beater falls, other beaters drag him away; when a grouse falls, the ground huntsman lets a dog out of the blind. Some huntsmen use setters, some pointers, some cocker spaniels. The dogs are trained to retrieve dead birds and catch wounded ones that are scrambling off in the heather...
...said he would rent the executive mansion and live in the garage, was immediately threatened with impeachment if elected over Republican Nominee Ira A. Hill. Declared "Alfalfa Bill:" "So be it. I am a candidate for impeachment, but it'll be like a bunch of rabbits trying to drag a wild cat out of a tree...
...Lindbergh and wife denied pictures of their baby to New York American. Journal ("Hearst); News, Mirror. Graphic (Tabloids): described practices of such papers as "disgusting . . . contemptible ... a social drag . . . non-constructive ... a waste of time...
...present proj-ect (to build up a picture of sea life in strata to a great depth) is a great well in the sea five miles south of Nonsuch. Over the well, a mile deep and eight miles in diameter, the tug Gladisfen cruises about. From a trailing drag line which scrapes the bottom, nets are strung to capture specimens in strata 100 fathoms apart...