Word: rosing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Enthused, confident, Her Grace ordered an immediate start for India. The plane rose heavily, snapped four telegraph wires, winged its way to Sofia, Aleppo...
Program to be conducted by Arthur Fiedler March, "On the Mall" Goldman Overture to "Oberon" Weber Fantasia, "Madame Butterfly" Puccini Songs with Orchestra a. Pax et lux F. E. Dow '09 b. Victory Song W. N. Rose '12 c. Tuftonia's Days F. W. Hayes '16 Bacchanale from "Samson and Delilah" Saint-Saens Ave Maria Bach-Gounod Rhapsody in Blue Gershwin Songs with Orchestra a. An Old Time Celebration F. W. Newton '90 b. That Mascot P. B. Lewis '18 c. Dear Alma Mater L. R. Lewis '87 Selection, "Show Boat" Keru Walts, "Estudiantina" Waldteufel Stars and Stripes Forever Sousa
...excitedly tooting and towing a fantastic bicycle. Fourteen-foot wings flapped great currents of air on either side of it. Flushed, intense, George White sat optimistically astride his invention. He pedalled furiously to force the wings to a rate of 100 flaps per minute, cast off from the car, rose gracefully in air. Like some prehistoric monster, the ornithopter, wings glistening in sunlight, described a gigantic parabola and came, back to earth. It had traveled eight-tenths of a mile in one minute and 36 seconds (rate of 30 m.p.h...
...Colchester, Conn., one Edward West, 69, six feet tall, fell down a well. The well was 20 feet deep; in its bottom were five feet of water. Standing in this, Edward West yelled for help. As he did so, his feet sank slowly into the mud and the water rose slowly along his neck, up his chin. At the end of an hour, the water reached the mouth of Edward West. Unable to shout any more, in a few minutes he would be unable to breathe. As he waited for a slow drowning, Edward West saw the face...
...slithering toward him. George Hicks flattened himself face downward. The boa slithered over him, stopped. Ten openings opened. Hundreds of humans wriggled into the openings, became corpuscles of the boa. It hissed a little, rolled on over the body of George Hicks, and into a dark hole. George Hicks rose, unhurt, and made for the platform. Again a boa with two small red eyes came toward him, too fast. Again George Hicks salaamed snugly against the dirty groove between two rails. The second, and then a third beast swiftly passed over him, stopped, filled itself with people, slithered away...