Word: flew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leading democracy of the world. Do our sympathies lie with the other democracies or do they lie with the totalitarian states? The present tempest in a teapot is stirred up by the fact that a Frenchman flew in a test plane which France quite legally was going...
William Chambers '39, who recently flew to Washington with a petition urging the lifting of the embargo which was signed by 1300 Harvard students, will report on his conference with Marvin McIntyre, secretary to the President. He also conferred with Senior Gerald, P. Nye of North Dakota...
...Geography 1 stared at its neatly printed midyear questions. Out of a jumbled mass of letters, that revolved about like the spokes of a wheel in an antique movie, the two words flew at its eyes, Old Howard...
...gust shook one of the curious triangles from its perch and scattered its particles into the dark, spreading a mist of snow across the lower panes. Then the flakes fell into step again and circled past his eyes as they had before. A big flake flew out of nowhere at the pane near his hand and violently flattened itself against the transparency. It held on desperately, its edges vanishing. Then suddenly it loosened its grip on the smooth surface and catapulted down along a stream of its own moisture. And more, smaller flakes blew out of the night and hung...
...Cabinet declared martial law throughout Loyalist Spain. There was no panic as Rebel planes flew over Barcelona in almost continuous bombing raids (General Franco himself had a look at the city from the air and was shot at), as the city lived what might well be its last hours under the Spanish Republic. When a Loyalist squadron gave fight to Rebel attackers in a midday raid, the people ran out in the streets and cheered wildly. The rumble of Rebel artillery was distinctly heard. Until martial law was declared movies were still crowded, the opera was beginning another series. Evacuation...