Word: droned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Seward at all. His mother had a lover in 1915 who died in the air service. So the boy gets married and puts on a uniform because-well, because everyone else is playing the game and he is expected to. The curtain falls as a squadron of airplanes drone...
...been taught, the prize might have been hers. But alas for corsets, in her very first season she blacklisted herself by letting an ineligible bachelor kiss her in a conservatory till all hours. Tongues wagged her market-value down & down. The bloom off, nobody came near but drones. Monica peered, preened and pined to no avail. Her father disappointedly died, her old-maid friends grew more virginal every year, her mother kept a stiff lip stiffer. Things looked pretty dismal for Monica when the biggest drone of all finally settled on her. And the dreadful point of the story...
...output. The company now makes five sizes of outboard motors, ranging from the 1½-h.p. single cylinder motor to the 4-cyl., 32-h.p., 116-Ib. Johnson Sea Horse. During the last two years motorboat sales have dropped badly. Last week it was no surprise when the smooth drone of Johnson Motor Co.'s affairs was broken, the firm sputtered, coughed, lapsed into receivership...
...strange drone grew out of the southern sky. The Yawalapiti children ceased playing. The adults stopped working and talking. The droning thing became visible very high up in the sky. It looked like a dragon fly. But it was bigger than a condor. The amazed Yawalapiti watched it circle down upon their village with a snarl louder than the snarl of any jaguar that ever lived...
Familiar to passengers who fly in multi-motored planes is the sound of throbbing overtones above the drone of the engines. "Waah-waah-waah" the engines sing. Nervous passengers imagine something is wrong. Seasoned travelers are made drowsy, are often annoyed by the monotonous chant, as by the clickety-clack of train wheels. Airmen know that "beats" occur because the propellers are not perfectly synchronized; that vibrations are harmful to the engines. Unless a pilot has an exceptionally good ear, he can rarely adjust his engines to perfect unison. (A difference of 10 r.p.m. will cause "beats...