Word: flew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year's best British aviator, the League's members in 22 countries voted for Henry F. Broadbent, who flew from England to Australia in 6 days, 21 hr. 19 min., lowering the record set by the late Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith, whose round-Australia time he also bettered...
From a strategical standpoint the promotion of an American transatlantic airline as a war-defensive measure is highly desirable. An English historian once remarked, "On the day that Bleriot flew the English Channel England became a continental nation." It might be said with equal truth that the day Charles A. Lindbergh flew the Atlantic Ocean, the United States became a European power. Few events in aeronautical history are more strikingly significant than the landing of a whole squadron of Italian planes under the command of General Italo Balbo in the very heart of America at Chicago three years...
With the right hand leading ("The left is lazy," explains M. Martin), the lively little duet twinkled through an intricate tango. Then the enterprising right fingers slipped into a pair of wee leather boots, flew into a Russian Kozatzki. After that; the astonishing finger-feet stepped into little silver slippers, the handiwork...
...cute pitcher's wind-up, wham! went a rock right through one of the Master's prize windows. First came the pleasant tinkling of broken glass; then the awful silence that follows catastrophes; and finally the horrible roar of the outraged being within. Ten seconds later the front door flew open and out thundered Roger Bigelow Merriman, Gurney Professor of History and exalted Master of Eliot House, brandishing his cane like the bloody brand of Rollo. The little lad turned pale and fled for the river, but Sir Roger, undaunted, steamed after him in hot pursuit, and, reaching out with...
...official victims struck back at their radio tormenter by distributing about Trenton mimeographed sheets in which they snickered at Carter's "Bond Street elegance and Piccadilly flair," observed that he "flew through the air with the latest of cheese," recommended "more ether" for such radio commentators. Equally irate was Mercer County Grand Jury Foreman Allyne M. Freeman at Carter's implication that politics, not justice, motivated his jurymen. Cried Foreman Freeman: "A cowardly, libelous and malicious lie! I consider his comments an insult to the Grand Jury. I shall never accept a penny nor an ounce of political...