Word: murk
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...Zeppelin, steel blue in the floodlights, was trimmed to circumnavigate the globe. Marines, sailors and Boy Scouts relinquished the ropes which held her to earth. Up she nosed, and away, a steady-moving monster quickly lost in the darkness. Manhattan watchers heard her motors, saw her slummer through the murk. She circled the Statue of Liberty before heading...
...maritime insurance- the disaster was declared "absolutely without precedent," since no such mighty leviathan has ever burned in course of construction. Result: the prevailing London rate of 8% for a "constructive total loss" was jumped to 15%. Most of the Europa insurance was placed in Hamburg, thus adding more murk to the city's gloom. Unofficially it was said that the N. G. L. had expected an increase in revenue of 20% when the Bremen, Europa and newly re-engined and speeded Columbus should be put in service. Shares of the N. G. L. were placed...
Half a million persons, transported by boats, motor cars, trains and airplanes, gathered last week around the Aintree racing course, shadowed by the murk of Liverpool. They watched 16 horses charge, as though in a Cossack attack, at the start of the Grand National Steeplechase. Horses stumbled. Horses straddled hedges. Horses fell into ditches. Ten reached the finish line at the end 856 yards. Leading them was one the name of which the half-million scarcely knew−a 100 to 1 shot, owned by a woman, ridden by a former sailor−Gregalach II, a chestnut gelding...
...head of the air parade that floated in among the clouds over the White House on Inauguration Day was the dirigible Los Angeles and four blimps. When the parade was over the Los Angeles soared back through the murk and storm to Lakehurst, N.J. Of the four blimps, one belonging to the Army and two belonging to the Navy, were unable, on account of the weather, to return to their bases at Langley Field, Va., and Lakehurst...
...that skin color was no longer determinable. One surviving family had lived on peanuts for three days. Throughout the whole region the air was noxious with fumes of decay. Immediate cremation of the dead was ordered. Quarantine of the entire district was imminent. It was a nauseous vale of murk and putrescence...