Word: floated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sent on short nights at 700 m.p.h., a new gyroscope designed to keep it from wobbling. By 1936, he predicted, he will be ready to send rockets perhaps 150 mi. into the Kennelly-Heaviside layer of ionized air with instruments which will record meteorological and other data, float back to earth on parachutes. Pleased, Messrs. Guggenheim & Lindbergh promised another year of support by the Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Foundation, climbed into their plane, flew away...
...that has ever followed a U. S. six-metre boat race. Beaten by nearly three minutes but grinning in honest approval of his opponent's skill, jovial little Magnus Konow, who looks like a browner, balder copy of the onetime Crown Prince of Germany, jumped out on the float, scrambled up the long steps to the clubhouse piazza. There he found the cold comfort that Seawanhaka custom provides for a defeated challenger: first drink...
...water was about 20° warmer than usual (74°) and partly because the race had been shortened from 15 mi. to five, Swimmer Gambi not only finished but won, against 90 high-grade professionals, in the excellent time of 2 hr., 8 min., 55 sec. Hauled onto a float and wrapped in a towel, he shouted into a microphone: "I am happy to have won for Italy and Il Duce!" A crowd of 10,000 immediately stopped cheering and began to boo so loudly that the rest of Gambi's remarks about going back to Italy to join...
...major Bolshevik objective pursued without success ever since the fall of Tsardom: to float a fat Soviet loan abroad and get Bolshevik bonds regularly listed on an exchange outside Russia...
...South Platte and Republican Rivers. The hamlets of Max and Parks vanished entirely. At McCook, home of Senator Norris, the Pastime Amusement Park slipped into the Republican River, grown two miles wide. The power station was demolished. In the dark, townsfolk watched whole houses and barns float by on the boiling flood waters. The water stood five feet deep in the Burlington station at Red Cloud, and two Chicago-Denver trains were stalled by washouts...