Word: outwards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...under his suit a duplicate control stick, which his fellow-students had advised him to take on his trip. He adjusted it carefully and came slowly down to earth, circling about the descending instructor with his right thumb pressed against his nose and his four fingers extended upward and outward, and with the smile still shining on his face...
...Lear Black owns the famous Sunpapers of Baltimore. Adventurous Englishman, purser of a blockade running munitions freighter during the great submarine war, a navigator himself, he took as naturally to the air as he had to the sea. May will see his three-motored Fokker upward and outward bound from Amsterdam, Holland, for Cape Town, then back to Cairo, then, if weather permits, to India and to Hong Kong. Last year handsome, aristocratic Mr. Black flew a passenger record, Amsterdam to Java, 20,000 miles...
Second, for London: U. S. loans to Australia help sterling to maintain itself at par, for when dollars flow outward towards the Antipodes gold sovereigns may hold the fort in London City...
...Some people pack their suitcases and clutch their tickets days before leaving for the train. President Coolidge, off for Cuba, knew that train time would come without his waiting for it. He passed the week with no outward sign of excitement...
...Clarkson looks rather like the young men who play football in college, sell bonds, put on weight as soon as they leave, and who appear at the halfway post, vigorous, talkative, ingratiating, and purring (some hours after the market has closed), with pleasure over ice & soda. It is an outward resemblance only, because Robert Clarkson possesses the importance which these popinjays pretend. He did not go to college at all but left a good school for his first inconspicuous position. When the U. S. entered the late War, he was already a partner in a newly organized brokerage house; when...