Word: floated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...realized that only a series of football miracles could save Harvard. In place of a miracle, a deluge of Biblical proportions arrived, crowning out all memories of last year's Army mud festival. A solid sheet of water covered the midfield area and rapidly gained sufficient depth to actually float the ball in places. Every play looked more like an outboard motor race than a football game, and when the backs were tackled they stirred up impressive "bow waves" as they skidded to a stop. And simultaneous with the appearance of white-caps on the jumping pits, the band struck...
Employer Max Fleischer whose Popeye does most of his heroic feats on spinach alone, hired other help, refused to accede to strikers' demands. All summer the strike dragged on, marked only by such minor incidents as an abortive attempt by picketers to float propaganda balloons up past the studio windows, by the arrest of a few female strikers on such charges as shin-kicking, biting a police sergeant in the arm. In metropolitan theatres loud-lunged claques greeted the appearance of Fleischer cartoons with resounding boos. Fortnight ago C.A.D.U. announced that 13 cinema theatre circuits, including more than...
Mushrooms, he learned, are fungi developed from spores which float in the air, too small to be seen by the naked eye. By a process still kept secret, he isolated mushroom spores in little bottles where they developed into spawn in a mixture of sifted manure. Nowadays the Jacob laboratories sell these whitish-brown lumps for 50? a quart ready for planting. The Jacob plant gets most of its manure which must be from "horses which are working hard and fed with grain and mixed feeds only," from Philadelphia and Baltimore, pays about $6.50 per ton, uses 20,000 tons...
When it became apparent that the plane was down, the Itasca steamed hopelessly to the search without any idea where to look. Experts believed that the plane would float a long time if undamaged in landing and if the weather was good. But a Navy flying boat that set out from Hawaii was turned back by a severe, freakish ice storm. Then came the first faint radio signals, which soon were reported by amateurs in Cincinnati, Wyoming, San Francisco and Seattle, by the British cruiser Achilles in the South Pacific, by Pan American Airways in Hawaii. Though all that could...
...therefore licked their chops when he arrived in Berlin. They gave him an honorary degree, got an unnamed industrialist to cough up 100,000 Reichsmarks for Chinese students to visit Germany, finally hinted that Germany would love to export machinery and other goods to China if Dr. Kung would float another international loan to pay for them. But wily Dr. Kung shattered their hopes by saying that China has learned her lesson in international loans, is now interested only in commercial credits. Then he left for the U. S. where last week he speedily made a deal...