Word: glides
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gentle curve. It will cross northern Minnesota, nipping Duluth with its southern edge, cross the western tip of Lake Superior, include much of Wisconsin and Michigan on both sides of their joint border, skim over the northern third of Lake Michigan and the northern portion of Southern Michigan, glide over the lower half of Lake Huron, sweep across Ontario, picking up Toronto at its northern edge, span the approaching tips of Lakes Erie and Ontario, cross straight over Buffalo, darken northeastern Pennsylvania and southern New York, blanket nearly all of Connecticut and much of Rhode Island...
Last week, through the bodiless air, a man with wings but without a motor glided for 9 hrs. 4 min.-a record. The man was Lieut. Thoret. Eighteen months ago he astonished the aero world with a glide of seven hours at Biskra...
...gold cup was given to the owner of the winner and to the winning jockey went the customary pair of gold spurs. Black Gold's trainer received a gold stop watch. The weight carried by the horses was 126 pounds. The event was open only to three-year-olds. Glide, the only fill entered for the race was withdrawn the night before. There were 19 colts competing. Black Gold paid $5.50 on a $2 mutuel ticket...
...show that the two old parties mean nothing to them, two Senators will glide gaily over party lines to encourage their parties' opponents at the coming election in Minnesota; to show further that the "progressive itch" is no respecter of denominations, one of the Senators is a Democrat, the other a Republican. On July 18, Minnesota will elect a successor to the late Senator Knute Nelson. The candidates are Governor J. A. O. Preus (Republican), State Senator J. T. Carley (Democrat), Magnus Johnson (Farmer-Labor). Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana (Democrat) announced that he would campaign for Johnson...
...rules of the game have been drawn up by Mr. Webster. He puts them down under the head of dancing: "To perform a regulated series of movements, commonly to music; to trip, to glide, or leap rhythmically. To move nimbly or merrily.--The complicated aerial movements of a swarm of some insects, as midgets, gnats, or certain butterflies." As applied tonight, the last section will be hardly necessary, but aside from that a definition of the movements allowed is important, especially the clause regarding tripping...