Word: iced
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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They did land, crumbling their undercarriage and scraping a hole in the ice. Thus was accomplished the first westerly flight across the North Atlantic. It was almost 5:30 p. m. Friday. No one greeted them...
Friday afternoon they headed into a gale. Ice began to cover their vessel; wind heaved it roughly about. Darkness was coming on; their benzine was almost gone. So they dipped in a cautious glide toward the earth's surface, not knowing whether below the fog's bed was land or water...
There was land, an island. And on it, or between it and another island, was a stretch of level ice, perhaps over a lake. With practically no fuel left, they were obliged to try a landing...
...lighthouse keeper carried their first message by walking across the Strait ice to the telegraph station at Lourdes de Blanc Sablon. A message went to Point Armour, where one William Barrett operated the wireless station. That first message announcing the Atlantic crossing was for the North German Lloyd steamship offices in Manhattan. The line had provided money for the flight...
...magazine, Miller proved himself the Boy Who Made Good. In his first game, the third of the series, he made many brilliant saves; in the next game he kept the Maroon team without a score. The Rangers, who had won by a single goal, carried Miller off the ice on their heads as, in Manhattan, the baseball fans had carried Cohen...