Word: saile
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...these principles," wrote Cayley, "upon which the support, steadiness, elevation, depression and steerage of vessels for aerial navigation depend, have been abundantly verified by experiments upon a large and small scale. I made a machine having a surface of 300 sq. ft. ... and it would sail downwards in any direction according to the set of the rudder . . . When any person ran forward in it with his full speed, taking advantage of a gentle breeze in front, it would bear upward so strongly as scarcely to allow him to touch the ground, and would frequently lift him up and convey...
...Sawyer, Davey Burnie is an orphan with a pesky aunt who keeps scrubbing out his ears. Like Huck, Davey has a Negro pal, name of Commercial Appeal. Unfortunately. Commercial Appeal is killed in an early burst of Ku Klux Klan violence in Kentucky in the 1880s and cannot sail down the Mississippi with Davey. But down the Mississippi Davey does go, with his Uncle Jim, a cigar-smoking Civil War veteran and college man learned in the classic lore of "a number of deceased nuisances like Horace and Socrates and Pluto." Other passengers: Zeb, an old family detainer fond...
...fall, the girls play field hockey and fence in the Quad, sail on the Charles, play tennis at the observatory courts, and swim at the gymnasium next to Agassiz. Also, they are free to enroll in equitation classes and travel to Medford or Jamaica Plain for jumping and riding in the afternoons...
...Greeks who never had known anything but candles, got the shipyards going, and brought strength to the nation's banks. Today Greece's drachma for once commands confidence at home and abroad. Tourists who once chose Italy or France now flock to enjoy the thin sun, sail out to the Aegean islands, and scramble around the magnificent rubble of the Acropolis...
...Francisco, Giant Pitcher Mike McCormick, who boasted the best earned-run average in the National League last season, threw one pitch to the Pittsburgh Pirates' Bill Virdon, watched it sail over the fence for a home run. McCormick headed for the showers one out later, the losing pitcher...