Word: half-an-hour
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...Rowland Island, where no plane had ever been. With typical stunt flyer's negligence, Miss Earhart did not bother to reveal her position along the way. The Coast Guard cutter Itasca at Howland heard from her about once an hour. Her final message said she had only half-an-hour's gas left, could not see land. She still gave no position and the Itasca's direction finder could not get a bearing because she had failed to adjust her radio to its frequency...
...growth of stubble on his chin, kept the Admiral for lunch. That afternoon he played his favorite game, tacking into shallow water, dodging among rocky islands where his deep-draft escorts could not follow. Vastly relieved were his guardians when the Sewanna hove back in sight after half-an-hour and they heard the President's great laugh ringing across the waters...
...Pact approached, Arketall got more and more irregular in his habits, and on the morning of "Der Tag," he was quite in his cups. Sitting in bed, with his morning cup of tea, the great British diplomat gave Arketall the sack, told him to decamp within a half-an-hour. An hour later, hurriedly dressing for the meeting of nations, Lord Curzon found himself without a single pair of pants with which to face the gathered ambassadors. The valet had taken every...
General Johnson well appreciated that it was no half-an-hour job for a great industry to draft a constitution for itself, but he could not overlook that some industries were making fine profits now and might be in no hurry to raise their labor costs by adopting codes. With this in mind, Attorney General Cummings gave General Johnson a hand by calling industry's attention to the fact that the anti-trust laws are not suspended except for industries which had adopted trade codes approved by the President. General Johnson and the President wanted haste, wanted pressure...
...observation both in imitating nature and in checking up descriptions with the action throughout the story. At the age of sixty-five the alertness of the short, muscular cabinet-makers is questionable. In one place Mr. Hooker's workshop is "small" and yet, later on, Mr. Collision spends half-an-hour in its nooks and corners dragging out furniture. Mr. Hooker needed the space below for his cabinet-making and the same amount of time spent in the attic better fits the picture. Too frequently we find the boars in the waves and the dolphins in the woods...