Word: headed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...head of the air parade that floated in among the clouds over the White House on Inauguration Day was the dirigible Los Angeles and four blimps. When the parade was over the Los Angeles soared back through the murk and storm to Lakehurst, N.J. Of the four blimps, one belonging to the Army and two belonging to the Navy, were unable, on account of the weather, to return to their bases at Langley Field, Va., and Lakehurst...
...Catholic Church is not a national church, but a universal society and to the head of that society men of all nationalities owe the same spiritual allegiance. . . . That certain nationalistic groups (in the U. S.) continually attempt to make him a 'foreign potentate' is a proof of the necessity that the universal, supernatural, and supranational character of his office be clearly recognized. . . . "No earthly recognition can add to the divine commission of the Papacy. The independent sovereignty which is rightfully hers and which has finally been restored to the Church will but evidence to the world the supernatural...
Akin to this experiment was the decapitation of a dog by two other Moscow men. S. S. Brukhanenko and Sergei Chechulin. To the head arteries they connected a pump which forced oxygenated blood to the amputated head, which, like John the Baptist's rested on a plate. The head's eyes moved. They closed when a strong light was flashed at them. The ears wiggled. The tongue ejected a piece of cotton soaked with acid, and swallowed a piece of cheese. For three and a half hours these natural reactions continued. By that time the venous blood became too heavy...
...flour sack which after many washings still proclaimed her ''Pure as drifted snow." One of her daily chores was to haul up water in a canvas bucket and swab down the poop-deck. As she hauled, one morning, a delicate blue sea-horse drifted by, his head emerging perky from an island of seaweed. Joan tried desperately to scoop him up, ran to the taffrail and scooped again, but the supercilious creature escaped. Over the side plunged six-year-old Joan in its wake, swam faster and faster from the schooner, while her father bellowed orders...
Brooklyn-Boston. Plans for the union of Abraham & Straus, Inc., Brooklyn's "biggest" department store and Wm. Filene's Sons Co. of Boston last week came to a head. Thus was forged another link in the chain begun when Jordan Marsh Co. and C. F. Hovey Co. entered the Hahn department store combine last December, and continued when Filene's absorbed R. H. White Co. soon after...