Word: rode
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Railroad officials, their families and friends rode many a needless free mile over foreign lines in private cars...
...lines were attached to the VJs salvage plugs. Fresh air was first pumped into the crew compartments, then into the ballast tanks, from which the water was blown. Twenty-three minutes later the Pacific's blue surface churned with foam as the V-4's stern rode up out of her "grave." Elated naval officers said the experiment was important because: 1) Never before had a submarine been thus raised by air in the open sea; 2) never before had a submarine so large as the V-4 been brought to the surface by independent means...
Only one year ago, sad Amanullah had ten thousand times $30, dozens of suits of clothes. Touring Europe he rode with Kings, witnessed sham battles, inspected shops in each country he visited, blithely accepted magnificent gifts bestowed in the hope that he would make even more magnificent purchases...
...thickly filled but that it can be used as a publicity medium by people with money enough to "pioneer" it. Last spring Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson of the Chicago Tribune; New York Daily News and nickel-weekly Liberty, rode around the Caribbean in a Sikorsky christened Liberty for benefit of press.* Last week Mr. Patterson's cousin-partner, Robert Rutherford McCormick, sent another Sikorsky from Chicago northeastward. This plane was supposed to fly a Great Circle course to Berlin for the glory of the Chicago Tribune ("world's greatest newspaper"), whose aviation editor, 200-lb. Robert Wood, went...
Last week, en route to Mexico, Dwight Whitney Morrow rode from Washington to San Antonio on the same train with Mexican Archbishop Leopoldo Ruiz y Flores, head of the Mexican Hierarchy. The venerable prelate, because of violent trouble between Church and State, had left Mexico a year before. Now, as delegate of a Pope who not only is Vicar of Christ but also a free sovereign, he was returning to discuss with Mexico's President Portes Gil the possible soothing of those troubles. Probably the Archbishop and the Ambassador talked. Possibly the Ambassador, as a U. S. Statesman, said...