Word: fogged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...holiday different from just another day off from classes. Heading for Gloucester early in the morning he boarded his trim sloop and swung rapidly around the jetty on Eastern Point, laying a course for the whistling buoy off Thatcher Island on the tip of Cape Ann. Soon wisps of fog rolled in on the heels of a fresh southerly breeze, and he checked his position before losing all sight of the surrounding waters. Miraculously the fog blew away in a few minutes, and he saw the twin towers of lighthouses that stand on Thatcher Island, and the lovely shoreline shining...
...quite a fair judge of the matter. However, he has convinced me that in this one instance he is right. We had a quite a long debate on the matter at the dinner table, and though some of his remarks were like a ship ghosting through the fog so was Black's silence...
...Oakland, Calif, he zipped to Fairbanks, Alaska in less than 14 hours. Following his $100,000 high-speed Lockheed was an old tri-motor Ford from which he planned to refuel in midair, thus tripling his range and obviating many landings in Alaskan mud, on ice hummocks or through fog, all deadly Arctic dangers. For 17 days, parka clad and living on seal meat and 18-month old eggs, Jimmie Mattern scoured the seacoast, the area flanking the 48th meridian and Alaska's mountainous interior. Because his refueling plane crashed just before reaching its destination he had to make...
...that every one has returned from the summer vacation full of exciting stories about running into a New Bedford steamer in a blinding fog or chasing some lovely female up and down the hills of Bermuda on a bicycle, the Vagabond feels inclined to interject his peseta's worth. He too has traveled and done things...
...tidal flats raised, and hangars, runways, offices, hospital and post office are built, Airport No. 2 will be quadrupled in size and second to none in the U. S. in equipment. Four runways from 3,650 to 4,770 ft. each 150 ft. wide, will accommodate the largest transports; fog-free Flushing Bay, lined with eight monster hangars and swank administration and service buildings will be ready to receive seaplanes from Bermuda and Europe...