Word: loadings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Imagine a gigantic yellow bird, with wingspread of 67 feet, weighing some 6,000 pounds, carrying an additional load of 11,000 pounds. Imagine that bird losing necessary flying speed a few feet above the ground, trying to land in a marsh at 70 miles per hour. In such a bird, last week, were Lieut. Commander Noel Davis and Lieut. Stanton Hall Wooster, crack flyers of the U. S. Navy. They were making their last test flight in the trimotored American Legion, preparatory to attempting a non-stop jump from the U. S. to Paris. Loaded with enough gasoline...
...Dornier Superwal model, with two Rolls-Royce-Conder motors, takes 21 passengers, crew of four. In tests it lifted 60 persons, a freight load greater than the ship's weight when empty...
...atrocious that an able-bodied boy should ride and let an old man walk. So the old man was ensconced on the beast with the boy. A short distance further on a passerby said quite indignantly that it was cruel for the poor animal to have such a load. So the man and the boy got down and carried the donkey, and as they were crossing a stream, they lost balance and all fell in and were drowned...
From this foundation, which is the one substantial spot of the whole book, Mr. Lindsay builds up an aery fantasy of verse as free in line and thought as the natural beauty which inspired it. Even the Anglo-Saxon carying a heavy load of civilization up the mountain has enough of the savage in him to appreciate this lyric interpretation of the liberty of the open summit...
Leekley of Harvard and Heep of the home team load in scoring, each contributing 15 points to their team's total. The game was fast and well played with the edge decidedly in favor of the Green. It was the first time in which a Dartmouth team coached by Lewis Wachter has turned back a Harvard team under the tutelage of his brother...