Word: flew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sooner did the Vagabond reach Honolulu and became friendly with Shirley Temple than he flew north and west to Kauai, advertised by The Hawaiian Tourist Bureau as the "Garden Isle." There were not many gardens, as far as he could see. Then again he could see little but what the native Louis pointed out from the depths of a Model A which rattled as if it had been to Pike's Peak and busted. Louis was a years character; he had twelve children and eleven years of marriage. "One each year of wedlock," he said, ignoring the first born. Louis...
When danger was such as required a long fast "hop," or straight run at maximum speed, the fish flew near the surface with its body bent downward in a curve from its midsection so that the tail touched the water occasionally, giving it accelerating bursts of speed. The wings move so as to make splash-points with the down-curved tips, at intervals resembling a column of colons exactly as described by Geologist Troxell. This flight ended in a glide with tail touching in a swimming motion several yards before the fish plopped down and submerged. In landing from...
...suicide squad" sworn to destroy the recently established Japanese naval base at Pratus Shoals, 200 mi. southeast of Hong Kong. Each pilot, gunner and observer was insured for $10,000, the policies payable to the flyers' families. Off to an unknown base in southern China they flew. By week's end no word of their mission had been received...
...Plays" was one of the most famous courses in the country, and the examination with its long memory question and its 60 to 70 "spot" passages was terror of many finals and mid-years. Professor Kittredge with his spotless beard, and his pearl gray flannel, and his glasses that flew up the lapel to their hanger with never a hitch, and his injunctions against coughing, has devoted this last year to the production of a work containing the lest known text of all the plays of Shakspere. He is frequently seen striding across the Yard, or mounting the steps...
Vacationing Pennsylvania Governor George Howard Earle & wife flew from London to Dublin on different airplanes. Explained Governor Earle, "It would be bad enough if our four boys lost one of their parents, but we didn't think it would be fair to run the risk of them losing both...