Word: hood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...virtues General Yeh Peng admires most. Dr. Skinner's offices are in the riverfront building of Asiatic Petroleum Co., and to that building went a military procession, including a 50-piece brass band and a car bearing officers of General Yeh Peng's staff. Attached to the hood of the car was a white banner five feet wide, blazoned with characters big as a man's head that every literate Chinese could read...
...Constitution Hall. Clifford Hood ("At home they call me Cliff...
Prime advantage of an automobile engine in private aircraft is its low cost-due to mass production-and the low cost of maintenance and replacements.† No less important is the psychological factor; many an amateur mechanic distrusts aircraft engines, has plenty of faith in the motor under his hood. Whether automobile engines are actually more dependable in flight remains to be shown...
...This stunt can also be worked by a ballyhoo man dressed in cape and black hood...
...March a wayfarer saw a flock of great, vulture-like birds tearing and gulping the carrion. They were bald eagles, of which only an occasional pair had hitherto been seen in the neighbor hood. Since then Cherryfielders have dropped their ordinary recreations to watch the birds. Twice each day, at sun rise and sunset, the eagles swoop on the stinking feast from their five-foot-wide nests in the trees of Cat's Skin Mountains. Observers have been able to approach within 400 ft. of the birds. A truckman's wife counted 30 at one time through...