Word: norfolk
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Three, days later Lieutenant Conant was killed when his seaplane crashed off the coast of Mathews, Va., while he was on his way to Norfolk to practice for the Schneider Cup races. Next morning, his body was found strapped to the seat of the wrecked plane; his hand was clutching the control levers; his parachute was untouched. Naval officers, viewing the disaster, said that he must have been flying low, about 160 miles per hour, when one of the pontoons of his airplane hit a fish net stake...
...Norfolk, Va., one Walter Winner, fisherman, sighted a sea turtle basking on the surface of the ocean; silenced his motorboat, slipped up behind, leaped to the turtle's shell, seized its head to keep it from diving, rode upon its back until, tired, it could be trussed, towed ashore. The turtle weighed 500 pounds...
...heard, considered and duly weighed by the tribunals of this Commonwealth. These pleas or motions have been so heard, or are yet to be heard. The proceedings in the case have occupied our courts in one way or another since Sept. 14, 1920, when the Grand Jury of Norfolk County returned indictments charging the two men with the murder of Allesando Beradelli and Frederick A. Parmenter. The Supreme Judicial Court has heard pleas and has denied them. Still other motions for a new trial were made in the present year, based on the ground of newly discovered evidence--these motions...
...Hutchinson's school days were spent at Gresham's School, Holt, a few miles from the Norfolk coast, and his holidays in Cumberland amongst the lakes. In such ideal surroundings it is hard to conceive where he learnt Socialism, but a Socialist he is; the fact constantly appears in his speeches and conversation. He is always running away on a bicycle or in a Ford to address mass meetings in the Midlands, or to stir up the lazy villagers of Cambridgeshire to take a greater interest in the running of their country...
...feat was all in the year's work for the twelve planes of Squadron No. 1, commanded by Lieut. E. W. Spencer. During the winter they maneuvered far and wide about their base at Guantanamo, Cuba. In the spring they flitted back to Norfolk, Va., then six of them left in-June for summer exercises at Newport...