Word: perched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shem, Japheth and the girls prove irredeemably wayward, human. By the time his craft comes to a perch atop Mount Ararat, Noah has even lost confidence in his distressed, slightly balmy wife. The children desert him, the animals turn savage, and poor old Noah is left sad, infirm, alone. He does not think he has quite deserved all his troubles. He doubts if their imposition has been quite "sporting" of God. But there is just one thing he wants to know. He lifts his shaggy face to heaven. "Are you satisfied?" he calls. "Are you satisfied?" And again...
...Short Brothers' Rochester (England) plant, is known as the Composite Aircraft. Simple in theory, it consists of a small, fast mail plane with high wind loading, mounted rigidly atop a huge flying boat. Unable to leave the ground by itself fully loaded, the sleek little mail plane will perch atop the "mother ship" for the takeoff. With eight engines (four apiece) wide open, the Composite Aircraft will be able to rise easily as a single unit. Securely locked together, the two planes will climb to some 5,000 ft. There, when sufficient speed is attained, they will separate...
...Toronto, Ontario, small Frank Williams toppled from his perch atop a ski-jump under repair, began an Soft, fall with a scream. Perched on a plank 15 ft. below, big Herman Bautzman heard the scream, stretched an arm, yanked small Frank Williams from the air and death...
Warned by the heavy smoke which quickly seeped throughout the building several men rushed to the top floor with extinguishers and soon had the flames under control. They then turned their attention to the unfortunate student who was forthwith extricated from his perch...
Dumb, quivering agony for the horse? dumb, quivering frustration for the lion. Such is the price of the circus act in which a lion leaps from its perch to a horse's back, rides around the ring. A lion dearly loves warm horseflesh and of all living creatures a horse most fears a lion...