Word: dune
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...motive force gliders use air currents which swell over hilly terrain. Dune country, such as that near Chicago and off the Carolinas, is best for gliding. Knolls, ranges or terraces should slope toward the prevailing wind. One knoll should be 50 to 200 feet above all. And all should be bare of poles, trees, shrubs or other obstructions...
...Expedition travels 5,000 miles. Explores; maps much new country. Discovers new geological formations, fossil deposits. Finds residence sites dune dwellers, culture everywhere, yielding thousands stone implements, decorated bones, shells, tooth necklace, indicating that 20,000 years ago Mongolia more densely populated than today...
...miles he piloted his own motor car at such terrific speed that the Associated Press car which followed skidded into a sand dune, turned turtle...
...cold logic. Human life is only partially rational. And by considering it wholly so, much of our education has become so much fact and circumstances dumped out of the dusty confines of some pedant's notebook and abandoned by him like so many blasted stumps on a sand-dune, completely severed from life and all things living. We are just awakening to the fact that by neglecting the imaginative and spiritual side of life, much of our education has reached an advanced stage...
...marked the 20th anniversary of the airplane. On the same day of the year 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright, sons of a clergyman of Dayton, O., in a curious boxlike machine made largely of wood, wire and canvas, propelled by a small gasoline engine, rose from a giant sand dune at Kitty Hawk, N. C, and made an epochal flight of 12 seconds. Taking the air a second time, they flew 852 feet in 59 seconds. The young inventors had braved the derision of all their neighbors, the scepticism of the world at large to create the first airplane...