Word: logged
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sultan of Morocco, tc the daughter of El Glaowi, pasha of Marrakech; at Marrakech, Morocco. El Glaowi thus achieves his life ambition, to ally his family with that of Mohammed. Thousands of sheiks, nobly mounted, resplendent in white silk robes, multi-colored burnouses, attended. Beeves, steers, sheep revolved over log fires, fed 8,000 guests. Fountains radiated jeweled light, the populace danced in the streets, fireworks soared. Two other sons and a daughter of the Sultan having been wed at the same time, the potentate offered a new costume to any of his slaves who desired to marry immediately. Thirty...
...movies, for she realizes that there has never been as easy an escape from reality. But America as yet does not live and die by her celluloid deities. From the horse operas of Mr. Mix one would gain the impression that the only buildings west of the Mississippi were log cabins, that the only inhabitants were cowboys and Indians. And life in New York is really not a beaten track between the Ritz and the night clubs...
Such philosophy occurs to pastoral gentlemen in pensive solitude. It could hardly be expected of spirited gentlemen flying over Polar wastes in an airship for 72 intense, cold hours, nor during their triumphal tour of civilization afterwards. The emotional log of the Pole-crossing dirigible Norge, which was spread out in the public prints last week, was more entertaining than surprising...
Without warning the sampan struck a log, overturned in half a twinkling. The policemen, both unable to swim, sank...
Herr Flettner's claim for the practicability of "rotoring" was strengthened by figures he could quote from the log of the Baden-Baden's lately completed pioneer cruise with a cargo of stone from Hamburg to Manhattan via the Canary Islands. She had used but 30% of the fuel oil any other 660-ton ship would have required without rotors. The rotors were at their best lending power auxiliary to the thrust of the motor-driven propeller, and in high winds off Gibraltar that had given the craft full headway when its motors were helpless. Herr Flettner told...