Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...benefit of those who know the name and not the substance of the Peter Pan legend, let it be said that Peter is a figure of eternal youth who takes certain mortal children to his strange Never Never Land and there introduces them to curious adventures with Indians and Pirates. In the end, the mortal children leave him and he bids them adieu from his home in the Never Never treetops...
...View. Armed only with a smoked glass, it is possible to see the disk of the sun gradually eclipsed by the moon. As more disappears, dusk comes on. Then it may be possible to see shadow bands playing across the land, a phenomenon the exact origin of which is not known. As the eclipse becomes almost complete, it may also be possible to see "Baily's beads." These are little spots of light coming through the valleys of the moon like strings of bright beads. This is as much as an observer in the region of partial eclipse can hope...
...satisfactory. The apparatus has been improved, however, and better results are expected this time from airplanes, which will ascend at Dayton. Likewise the dirigibles Shenandoah and Los Angeles are expected to take the air this year and go out to sea, where the sun will be higher than on land at the time of the eclipse; in addition, they will have the advantage of slower movement than airplanes...
...pressed into service during the holiday rush. He flew away from May wood Field, Chicago, at 7:10 one evening and, sailing westward, encountered a blinding snowstorm near Kaneville, Ill. His motor failed. A pilot under such conditions is helpless. He cannot tell where there is a spot to land; he cannot guess whether the earth is thousands of feet away or grazing the wheels of his landing carriage. Sergeant Gilbert, moreover, was not familiar with the route. He decided that a crash was unavoidable. He jumped...
...woman shrieked, seeing the portholes burst. The vessel groaned, feeling downward for her grave on the cold seafloor. The Black Sea flung its folding mountains on and on toward land and the winter gale hissed a dirge for the works...