Word: motionlessness
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...next day the storm-signals were hoisted and speedily changed to hurricane warnings. The barometer was around 29.25, falling fast. The sky was yellowish. Pelicans stood motionless on keys in ridiculous single file, ogled each other. It grew black...
...hours and 21 minutes a creature soared silently, with motionless wings, near Koenigsberg, Germany, one day last week. A thunder shower forced it to earth. It was the glider Goethen, holder of the previous world's record of 5 hr. 40 min. for motorless heavier-than-air craft with pilot and passenger.* It bore Ferdinand Schulz and a companion. Pilot Schulz's skill lies in utilizing air currents after leaving a lofty takeoff, as do eagles and other birds capable of staying aloft for hours with never a wing beat. He declares he is confident...
...were first hung up last October. Numerous attempts had been made to explain their motion, which seemed perpetual, visitors flocked daily to the Museum to see the University's modern wonder. Then yesterday when people came in to watch them at their expected rounds were astounded to see them motionless. They still hung, however, in their usual case just as before; here was another mystery greater than the first...
...Norway, a large white dog emerged from a doorway. The street was snowbound, deserted; the dog, lonely. When a pedestrian did pass by the dog nuzzled her sleeve, seized her tippet, trotted beside, baying. Alarmed, the pedestrian, Gunaelia Lovenskiolde, charwoman, aged 72, took flight, stumbled screaming, fell heavily, lay motionless and silent. The dog lay down beside, where its owner, Olaf Stang, found it on his way home. Fearful lest the dog get chilled, he led it to his hovel, locked it in, before assisting the unconscious woman. Neighbors witnessing, had Olaf arrested "for loving his dog better than...
...mirage that has been flickering for weeks over a whole city block on Manhattan's upper West Side, ceased flickering last week and stood motionless, a fixed vision. It has the shape of a skyscraper of the Babylo-American style. It is the home-to-be of the Metropolitan Opera Company, a towering image of efficient U. S. culture...