Word: getaways
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...soldier of fortune, searcher by air for an undiscovered continent, warmed up the Wright Whirlwind motor of a Stinson plane by leaving an oil heater in the hangar all night. The thermometer was at 50 below 0. Buckets of hot oil poured into the motor next morning sped the getaway. With an offshore wind under tail, Captain Wilkins and his pilot, hardbitten Carl Ben Eielson, steered 25° west of north, and vanished out over the Arctic Ocean. The plan was to fly thus for six hours, then turn southwest, fly two hours, then turn back to Point Barrow. The territory...
Publisher Don Mellett of the Canton Daily News fought Canton vice and police corruption fearlessly, openly. He was shot dead after midnight in his own backyard by two patient, coldblooded, doubtless well paid slaves to crime, who aimed their rifles from behind a rosebush and made their getaway in a waiting automobile with a Canton license. The incident has led the nation to picture Canton, an ugly enough industrial town at best, as one of the largest stagnant backwaters of the Midwest's underground currents. This it may or may not be. There is a broad-beaten route between...
...assist her flight from justice. Two savage tramps fall in love with her; detectives pick up the trail and the second act is played in a box car of the westering freight. The stubby redhead protects her from the tramps, finally winning their admiration, and their aid in a getaway across the Border...
...died, brokenhearted, shortly after the Wrights' first flights; his own attempt to fly had failed some time previously. But it failed, many experts have thought, because Langley tried to have the flight made from a houseboat on the Potomac without provision for a suitable length of run for getaway, and not because his device was inherently deficient...
...first start, the pistol failed to go off and the starter's shout of "Row" caught the Freshman crew unawares, so that a bad crab was caught. A second time, Groton made a clean, getaway, but the 1928 oarsmen were still somewhat disorganized and ropped nearly half a length behind. Rowing at 42 strokes to the minute, they quickly caught up and with a lowered stroke had forged a length ahead by the halfway mark...