Word: fortresses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Corps just set it up to shoot at, expecting to break it as soon as the superfortress (150 ft. wingspread) is equipped with bigger engines. Two days prior, the same ship climbed to 8,200 feet with a 15½-ton payload (world's record). Smaller Boeing "fortresses" (YB-17s, 105 ft. wingspread), carrying five-ton loads, established new altitude (23,800 feet) and speed (205 m.p.h.) records for a 621-mile course. Another "fortress" climbed to 33,400 feet carrying five tons (world's record). In time for the party at Wright Field, a brand new Boeing...
...even Paris, taken at first hand, soon lost its sheen. Henry and his devoted second wife (beauteous Elsie Marie Whelen of Philadelphia) moved again, this time to the idyllic seclusion of an 8th-Century fortress-monastery at La Napoule, on the shores of the Mediterranean. There they set about to create their Never-Never Land. Self-conscious Aristocrat Clews carefully restored the chateau and gardens, stocked the whole place with white birds and animals (to his white pigeons he had tiny flutes fastened, which whistled musically as they flew), worked when he felt like it at sculpture, writing, painting...
...fitting climax to a busy season of publicity-seeking, members of the Lampoon, college temperance organ, set fire to their fortress and turned in a 4-11 alarm to the Cambridge fire department on Thursday night...
...there is any speck that could mar the efficient working out of these improvements, it is in that slight word "flexibility" which is not seldom used to cover a multitude of sins and open a fortress of loop-holes. The worth of the adoption of the suggestion is to be tested by the amount of leeway allowed. True it is that there are many situations where set rules cannot be applied,--where inefficiency or injustice would be the result. But care must be taken that what start out as exceptions to general principles now subscribed to do not become...
...night Earl Durand stole down to the corpses, smashed their rifles, took rubber-soled boots from one, bootlaces from the other. He made a false trail up the precipice behind his boulders, then doubled back. Next day when the posse closed in on his fortress, he was not there. While they tried to trail him with bloodhounds on the mountain, while militia dragged up a howitzer, Earl Durand held up a car down on the valley road...