Word: pursuitence
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wiser vestiges of autocracy, can do no wrong. The citizens of tomorrow, the backbone around which the nation will be built, have shared this belief in full innocence of the ways of men and morals. When the Volstead Act was declared no infringement of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Young America wavered a moment in doubt. And then in the most amusing test case of the post-diluvian age, the highest tribunal decided that bootleggers must pay an annual income tax on their ill-gotten returns...
...mellow sentimentality General Ismet continued: "We want our daughters, at the urging of their mothers, who, with their heads ornamented with the flowers of Anatolia, than's to the vigor of their healthy bodies, transported munitions in our time of need, to consecrate themselves to the pursuit of a vigorous physique. We want them ... to exhale the perfume of the flowers of our mountains, and to reflect the spirit of economy and sobriety...
...pursuit tactics to the acid test under extremely rigorous weather conditions, and to afford a very broad opportunity for testing flying equipment in zero temperatures" the ist Pursuit Group of the Army Air Corps long planned a frigid flight from Mt. Clemens, Mich., to Spokane, Wash., and back. The planes, 18 pursuit and four transports (one carrying short wave radio apparatus), equipped with skis and other pertinent paraphernalia for operation under extreme cold and bad weather, were ready to fly last week. A first delay came when the planes were plated with ice after an all night storm. Then...
Frigid Test. For 6,000 miles, 20 Army planes of the 1st Pursuit Group at Selfridge Field, Mich., will wing a bleak way to Seattle and back again, this week and next, to test the winter endurance of personnel, of new high-powered planes. The planes use skis instead of wheels on landing gear...