Word: keeled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attempted to fly from Atlantic City to Europe in the rebuilt America, with a crew of five and a mascot kitten. The America had a bag 228 ft. long filled with hydrogen generated from sulphuric acid and iron filings. She carried a long control car, the keel of which was a cylindrical fuel tank. From it were suspended a lifeboat and a long cable trailing a cluster of 30 hollow steel cylinders. This last device, called an "equilibrator," was supposed to touch the water, keeping the dirigible at an altitude of 200 ft. If the warm sun should cause...
...would get them when as the boats rounded the last mark, she was far out in front and Lorna Whittelsey was third, a good quarter-mile behind Edgartown. By making up that quarter-mile- largely because the Edgartown had somehow picked up a piece of driftwood with her keel-Lorna Whittelsey kept her chance alive but it was a chance as faint as the breeze that had given it to her. In the sixth race, Ruth Sears would have had to miss the one point a boat gets for finishing to lose the championship. Instead, while Lorna Whittelsey was winning...
...Washington and flew off for a midnight meeting with President Roosevelt at Hyde Park. When General Johnson woke up next morning in Poughkeepsie's Nelson Hotel the coal strike had been called off for the time being. The recovery program was again moving forward on an even keel. By his night flight General Johnson had not only patched up a strike truce but had also hornswoggled out of Capital & Labor a high-sounding agreement to keep the peace while he did his NRA job. Almost overnight the Pennsylvania coal strike had flared up from a local ruckus in Fayette...
...Havana, went fishing with a Captain Leslie Waggett last week and saw something pink fluttering over the water about three miles off the Jaimanitas Yacht Club. It was a light summer dress tied to an oar and the oar was held by Cinemactor Alexander Kirkland clinging to the keel of an overturned sailboat. With him, without her dress and painfully sunburned, was Actress Ann Harding Bannister with her secretary Marie Lombard. Hysterically they told what had happened and how the boat's skipper, one Majin Alvarez Piedra, had started swimming to shore. Gibbered Miss Harding...
...through the water . . . going at the swimming man, and there was a scream and he was dragged down. We drew ourselves up further on the keel...