Word: flew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...land planes with British markings flew over Japanese positions last week. The British could offer no explanation, saying there were no British land planes nearer than Hong Kong. Japanese resentment, ignited fortnight ago when the British permitted 377 Chinese soldiers to escape to the British lines (TIME, Nov. 8), was at snapping point...
...Stalin pleases, thus carrying millions of dollars worth of war paraphernalia complete with Soviet military experts into the anti-Japanese camp, yet leaving Moscow technically guiltless of having taken hostile action against Tokyo. According to the Nanking version, last week Soviet Ambassador to China Dmitry Vasilevich Bogomolov, who recently flew from Nanking to Moscow on a secret mission (TIME, Oct. 18), is about to fly back with news that Outer Mongolia will soon rejoin China with the blessing...
...says: "At Thaxted I preached Socialism, and soon introduced a full Catholic Worship according to the old English rite. Some of my parishioners became very keen, especially the young and the poor. During the War a lady gave me a Sinn Fein flag for the church and I flew this from the church together with a St. George's flag for England, and a red flag for the International. Those flags afterward became the occasion for riots. We ultimately lost the flags, but the preaching continued as ever in support of Him who helpeth them to right that suffer...
...when Casey played his first game as a Pirate in the Brooklyn ball park, the Brooklyn crowd gave him a big hand. Casey bowed, lifted his cap. Out flew a bewildered sparrow...
...Oklahoma City. Congressman Hill had been scheduled to speak at last week's meeting of the East Central Educational Association at Ada, Okla. First person who agreed to deliver the address in question was Senator Joseph T. Robinson, who died last July. Next Amelia Earhart was asked, accepted, flew off into the Pacific Ocean. After her President Henry Hardin Cherry of Western Kentucky State Teachers College at Bowling Green, Ky., accepted, and died. Dr. Melvin Everett Haggerty, of the University of Minnesota, did the same...