Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...steam, she was high out of water, half on top of the ice. The ice would yield, like an overpacked trunk when a big woman sits on its lid. Slowly she bashed her way up the St. Mary's, freed this ship and that, brought food and fuel to sailors. With continued cold, she may not reach all ships; some may be frozen tightly until spring...
...walk a step. I stretched him on the snow with his back to the blaze and took off his fur boots to find both feet frozen stiff," What this meant, in the midst of the howling desert, at that time of the year, with little food and less fuel and no medical attention is hard to imagine. But the laconic narrative proceeds, with the reader's breath bated, until Jayne is disposed of in the care of Dr. Kao, "full of Christianity and antiseptics." This leaves Mr. Warner free but lonely to make his scheduled dash to Tun Huang...
...course, his pocketbook. His passion is commercial and civil aviation-flying for everybody-and in its service he has flown the length of Africa, the breadth of the seas between Britain and Australia (TIME, Oct. 11), without any preparation beforehand beyond ascertaining where he could pick up fuel. Interviewed, he spoke with scorn of parachutes: "Great heavens! If flying is so dangerous that you've got to use a parachute, then don't fly. ... Or get a plane with more than one engine. . . . Stunt flying isn't commercial aviation. . . . Flying is no greater step forward over driving...
...pack-mule and walk, but the trails are steep and often dusty, so that a horse is a necessity for real pleasure. Our horses were mountain bred, sure-footed, and gentle. We estimated the cost for the six days at about $50 each, including food, horses, etc. Nature provided fuel, water, and light, thus giving the meters at home a rest. We lived on simple food of our own cooking, with trout provided, and agreed that it was cheaper than staying at home...
...best of cafeterias. These accessories, for example, should be fresh bread, filtered ice water, small individual jelly services, hot rolls, clean table linen, intelligent service, and similar unaccustomed luxuries. These are the things that determine whether or not eating is to be pleasurable or a mere stowing away of fuel...