Word: piloted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...flood. They were a motley crew? a princess from Oceania, a learned historian-statesman from Massachusetts, a much investigated ex-Cabinet officer from Ohio and many less marked personages. They trooped into Public Hall, which may be called the Ark, to place themselves in the care of the astute pilot, William M. Butler, who may be called Noah. Only Calvin Coolidge must be left out of the simile to avoid blasphemy...
...could do, Inglis M. Uppercu, A. P. & M. President-likewise President of the Uppercu Cadillac Corporation of Manhattan, and a keen yachtsman-had one of his ships, the Morro Castle, 2nd, fly from San Juan, Porto Rico, to the docks of the Columbia Yacht Club on the Hudson. When Pilot C. J. Zimmerman, Floyd Whalton (his mechanic) and Mrs. Whalton reached the Hudson, they had but a few drops of coffee and some crumbs of bread left, but were physically fit and highly elated at their enthusiastic welcome by representatives of the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce. The 3,000 miles...
Looping is one of the simplest airplane maneuvers. The pilot dives his ship steeply towards the earth and gains tremendous speed. He then turns his elevator or horizontal up, so that the rush of air bears downward on the tail of his plane. Naturally the nose of the ship goes up, the plane climbs, the nose goes lighter and higher and for a brief moment of time the ship is flying upside down, only to dive again and resume its normal attitude. When correctly executed, the loop is seen as a beautiful, smooth curve...
...ship news reporter is a man who goes down the harbor on the pilot boat, rides back on an incoming liner and writes all about the people who are on board. Usually there are a great many people and most of them mean nothing from the standpoint of news. If there is one among them who has invented a safety pin or turned somersaults before King George, it makes a good story, and the ship news reporter writes all about him and strings a few desultory paragraphs about the other passengers at the end of his account...
...however, until 1848? that year of European revolutions?that Kossuth achieved the summit of his popularity. In this year Europe was like a ship without a pilot. In the offing were the sombre clouds of revolution, the waves of discontent dashed themselves against the hull, flinging the spray of revolt high into the air, while a whining wind shrieked its final warning. And the crew were 'down below gambling for the destinies...