Word: flew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...involved Texas law with "burglary of a private residence at nighttime with intent to commit a felony; to wit, murder." For 16 months beak-faced Principal Wyatt languished in the Dallas jail; once, on the trial date, pneumonia reprieved him. Last week the "love-bomb" trial began. From Chicago flew 26-year-old Mary...
Late one afternoon a squadron of British bombers left their North Sea bases and flew toward the German coast. Near Helgo land Bight they sighted, through a thin mist, a German battleship, a cruiser, sev eral destroyers, a submarine. The sub marine opened fire, then submerged. A few minutes later a squadron of Messerschmitt pursuit ships came up. For an exciting half-hour the British were under fire by turns from above and below...
...single-handed combat. His first picture, The Lamb, jumped his first ten-week contract, under puttee-wearing Director David Wark Griffith, from $2,000 a week to a three-year contract at $4,000 a week, typed him for life as an acrobatic comedian. Grinning, he slashed, sprang and flew through such cinema classics as Robin Hood, The Thief of Bagdad, The Three Musketeers, The Black Pirate...
...also upped world production quotas (British-controlled through the International Tin Committee) to 120% of standard. Britain doesn't mean to have a tin shortage in wartime, doesn't mean to give it away because her pound has fallen. Untied, British tin prices last week flew up to ?275 per ton (equivalent to 48? a Ib.), then settled back...
...there, he flew from Chungking to Sian (400 miles) in five hours. Thence it took him five days by train to get to the Yellow River (70 miles)-his train jumped the track once, a bridge washed out under it once. He was given a horse, and for three solid weeks (rising at five, riding ten hours a day, sleeping wherever night caught him) he followed precarious mountain passes until he came to the Chin Valley...