Word: heaviest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...transatlantic run the Cunarder Andania was perhaps subjected to heaviest buffeting. When she reached Liverpool her master, Captain Doyle said: "It was as bad as we could have it and stay afloat. . . . Mountainous seas washed over us fore...
...Hurricanes, electric storms, sudden ground squalls are their enemies. Commander Rosendahl, survivor the Shenandoah smash (TIME, Sept. 14, 1925) believes that the Los Angeles, once in the air, can survive far heavier storms than he permits her to rush. Perhaps, when dirigibles are enlarged, perfected, they will swim the heaviest storms that winds can blow. Helium gas, which fills the bag, will not burn, cannot explode...
...Mellon's this would be the first clean-shaven Cabinet in U. S. history, frowned quizzically and held something in his hands behind Attorney General Sargent's head. Secretary Curtis Dwight Wilbur (Navy) let his long arms hang at his sides and peered forth from beneath the heaviest dark eyebrows and highest shock of hair in the Cabinet, through the only pair of spectacles (rimless) in the picture...
...Cricklewood Airdrome (near London) a plane slid lazily along the air, slower, stalling; the lazy tail began to drop. Such weary antics precede the tail spin, horrible whirl to death of many an aviator, among the heaviest hazards of aviation. Spectators thrilled. But the plane above Cricklewood did not spin. Instead it hung in the air under perfect lateral control, nosed down a trifle, regained flying speed...
Nearly 500 have their homes in New York City. New York State is second to Massachusetts, with 7,482 Harvard graduates located in that state. The far West offers both the third heaviest concentration of alumni, and the least dense distribution. California holds 1,929 Harvard men, while Nevada, bordering California on the east, has only 22 Harvard graduates. Pennsylvania is fourth among the states with 1,908 alumni. Illinois and Ohio have 1,690 and 1,652 Harvard men respectively. New Jersey, with 1049 graduates in its confines, is the only remaining state with over 1000 alumni...