Word: noses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...towed around for miles in his dory. He learned to chum for the brutes with fresh-killed fish, preferably good oily and bloody ones. He learned how to cure a hooked shark of sulking on the bottom: send a lively crab down the line to pinch his nose...
Rated in finish third behind Lowell and Eliot, the Deacon eight pulled up strong at the finish to nose out both Eliot and Lowell by half a length. As they got away on a good start, Lowell jumped into the lead, followed by Kirkland and Eliot. Adams never threatened...
...lopsided as it always is, the command at the CRIMSON practices for the past few days has been that the boys need not go into their usual spring training, but even with this handicap, those in the know have put their money on the red CRIMSON nose...
...ship buckled. Down on the ground went the stern with a peculiarly gentle crash amid clouds of dust and smoke. As the still undamaged bow tilted up at 45°, the flame rushed through the middle and geysered in a long bright plume from the nose. For an instant the Hindenburg seemed a rearing reptile darting its tongue in anger. Then it was a gigantic halfback tackled behind the knees and falling forward on its face. The huge bag settled slowly to earth with fire roaring over it 50 yd. a second. Last place it reached was the passenger section...
...their story of the port rear engine racing and spouting sparks. These might have ignited hydrogen valved out during the descent. Airships usually valve gas in landing. The vents are on top and the gas is so light that it usually rises straight up. The Hindenburg was slightly nose down at the instant of the fire and still moving fairly fast. Conceivably a freak breeze might have combined with the slipstream to waft a whiff of gas into engine sparks...