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Word: flew (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...like the Graf Zeppelin's. Aboard the warlike Akron officers & crew (except the captain) are tucked deep in the ship's bowels. More fundamental is the Navymen's admiration for a ship which was the training school of practically all the lighter-than-air personnel; which flew some 140,000 mi. in 250 flights with never a serious accident;* which submitted stanchly to all manner of experiments; which was the first airship ever to outlive her usefulness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: L. A. to Pasture | 7/11/1932 | See Source »

Divorced. Sir James Heath, 80, British ironmaster and colliery owner; and Sophie Mary Lady Heath, who flew alone from Cape Town to London in 1928; in London. Grounds: misconduct with Reginald Williams whom she married after obtaining a Reno divorce which Sir James held was illegal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 11, 1932 | 7/11/1932 | See Source »

...Gold! Gold!" laughed the men and flew back to their labor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fortune from Neptune | 7/4/1932 | See Source »

...circling down upon them. The women ran into the jungle, ripping off their uluri (genital charms) as sacrifice to the demon. But the village site was too small for the plane to land. Anthropologist Petrullo & Victrola-Hein Johnson dropped a sack full of good-will offerings upon the village, flew back south...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Gods & Fishhooks | 6/27/1932 | See Source »

...first time the Lord Mayor of London flew somewhere last week, flew not only with his civic sword and his civic mace but medievally bedight in swishing robes, clanking gold chains of office and great plumed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Lord Mayor Aired | 6/20/1932 | See Source »

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