Word: drifting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...declare that it takes about 100 years or more for these huge masses to form in the glacier fields, and it is because these bergs are so solidly formed in rock-like strata that it is so difficult to demolish them. It takes the bergs about one year to drift down from Baffin Bay to the Northern area of the Banks. Their length at this time averages about five city blocks, while their height runs from 200 to 300 feet. It was calculated that there are usually some 100,000 tons of ice above the water, and since the bergs...
...Harbor, a picture town of white houses and green lawns, fountains and a cold blue surf, stands smoothly against the ocean. Here fashionable people drift across bright water in sailboats or across wide polished roads in automobiles. Across Salisbury Cove other fashionable people have their docks for swimming, in Winter Harbor. Along the coast is the polite and spectacular beauty of Mount Desert. Sorrento lies near the three, a village in which there are a few big country places and several inns, where people, rich and respectable rather than smart, stay for a few weeks or a month...
Then Mr. Goldman raised a little stick, and as he waved it, caused music to gather in the still air, drift and dissolve in the lacey tangles of the trees...
...enemy. Coast dwellers frown when the grey banks drift in and smother the buoys. At sea the slowed ships feel their way; the sirens mourn incessantly. Voices are lowered in a fog, which muffles them yet lower as though it shrouded something grave about to happen. Fog, several hours of it, gets on men's nerves. Two thousand miles of groping through fog might drive two men in an airplane-a land airplane over an ocean-close to distraction. So thought radio operators listening last week to the day-and- nightlong flashes of Ernest L. Smith, civilian pilot...
...trip around the world, during which he was forced to eat carrots and monkeys while quarantined in the Philippines. He entered the Navy via Annapolis. His services to aviation include the invention of the bubble sextant (giving flyers an artificial horizon), the perfection of the sun compass and the drift indicator. He was flight leader of the MacMillan expedition to Greenland in 1923. Everyone knows the story of his flawless flight from King's Bay, Spitzbergen, to the North Pole and back in 16 hours on May 9, 1926. Last week he hinted that his next exploit would...