Word: fairing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME'S plan is good, is attractive, but is not "without precedent" except in detail, and perhaps in class of publication. The rate is fair...
...start at Old Orchard was June 13, a fair day with western winds all the way across the Atlantic. On the long, white, hard beach were the Yellow Bird and the Green Flash, a Bellanca monoplane with Wright Whirlwind motor which Roger Q. Williams and Lewis E. Yancey planned to fly to Rome. The Yellow Bird was going to Paris. The two planes warmed up simultaneously. The Yellow Bird took off first, her tail drooping unusually. The Green Flash in starting crumpled a wheel and wrecked itself...
...last Chicago's World Fair (1893) the first convention of women's music clubs was assembled through the efforts of Mrs. Theodore Thomas, wife of the conductor. Four years later, inspired by this start, six women met in New York City, laid the foundation of the now national Federation of Music Clubs. In Boston last week this Federation held its 16th biennial convention with 3,000 delegates representing clubs in every State and also Alaska, Hawaii. Programs featured all branches of musical activity, every musical phase of civic, social, home, school, church life. Practical assistance...
When Preacher Wilson got up to reply, the audience began to leave. Vexed, he called for fair play, shouted that prohibition was a "modern miracle," assailed "Drunken England...
...Hugh Beckett Greene, 19, fair, chinless, has a boyish shape (shoulders larger than hips) but wants to have the girlish reverse. Her wedding-day confession...