Word: priding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...With pride they pointed to Mme.' Gomo, who for the past 60 years has eased into the world an average of two babies a week, in all 6,582. Thirty-six years ago, they added, Mme. Gomo was awarded the Prix de Vertu of the French Academy. She is nearing 80 years of age and is soon to retire, they concluded with an air of "what is to happen to our future babies...
...over strange soil and seas. Brown natives on lonely wastes and swarthy fishermen on desolate coasts looked upward from their fires and nets to see the huge hummingbird dart eastward overhead. Edward F. Schlee, Detroit oil man, and William S. Brock, onetime air mail pilot, drove the Pride of Detroit toward the glory of circling the world in record time. The previous record made by airplane, train and boat: 28 days, 14 hours, 36 minutes...
Fourth day. Another 500 miles was behind the Pride of Detroit as she coasted to earth at Stamboul, Turkey. Said the military commandant at the field: "In the name of Turkish aviators of the future I greet and welcome you . . . ." Pleased with this courtesy the aviators prepared to hasten on toward Aleppo. Official Turkey ordered them to wait while the red tape was unwound from an official permit to fly over Turkish territory...
Sixth day. Flyer Schlee was given a "good luck bead," used by Turkish cabbies to decorate their horses, and he blamed the bead for the delay in Turkey. He said it worked against his rabbit's foot. The Pride of Detroit, un-superstitious machine, rose from Constantinople, flew to Bagdad, 1,075 miles, making up time...
Seventh Day. Harassed on the one hand by harsh fatigue, on the other by the passing of precious time, Schlee & Brock swung the Pride of Detroit into the air from Bagdad and flew to Bender Abbas, Persia...