Word: flew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Korean on the edge of the crowd threw a narrow tin box high in the air. In an ear-splitting roar, the grandstand flew apart like a mechanical toy. Minister Shigemitsu was blown into the air like a jack-in-the-box, his feet flung wide. Consul General Mural's face was unrecognizable with blood and torn flesh. Admiral Nomura's eye was blown out, General Shirakawa lost all his teeth. General Uyeda lost three toes. Kim Fung-kee, the Korean bomb-thrower, was beaten unconscious by Japanese soldiers. One W. S. Hibbard, a U. S. citizen, protested...
...steeply, shook the engine off, watched it fall down, down, down safely into the water. After requesting a relief ship, he maneuvered 25 mi. on two motors to an emergency landing field. When the relief ship arrived, some of the passengers said they enjoyed the experience, all of them flew on to Chicago, less than one hour late...
...During the darkest hour of China's desperate defense," cried Chinese Banker T. V. Soong, speaking for the Chinese Government, "Robert Short, a friend from a distant land, flew out-of the sky and gave his life. . . . To the Chinese people this act of courage and sacrifice was electrifying." Posthumously Hero Short was created a Chinese Colonel...
...start was even. Conductor Serge Koussevitzky came out on Boston's Symphony Hall stage last week at precisely the same moment that Leopold Stokowski appeared on the Philadelphia Academy of Music stage. Koussevitzky's entrance was dignified, unflurried. Stokowski fairly flew from the wings. But then Stokowski had a longer first lap. He had the gloomy Fourth Symphony of Finnish Jan Sibelius to get through with, whereas Koussevitzky had only a trifling piece by Corsican Henri Martelli. Stokowski's pace was brisk but with odds so against him it was not surprising that Koussevitzky was ready first...
From Paris, where he discussed interconnections with French Aeropostale for its mail delivered by boat across the South Atlantic from French Africa to Natal, Brazil on the Pan American System, unresting President Trippe flew last week to London to ponder a mail route (with Imperial Airways; from the U. S. to Europe via Bermuda and the Azores...