Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...textbook engraving of Christopher Columbus discovering America would excite no special curiosity in most small girls, Victorian or modern. But one blue-eyed, chestnut-haired Philadelphia child gazed at it during the late 1860'sand wondered. What about those red Indians peeping through the forest at the white man? What about their souls...
Such a policy is "revolution" in the British Parliamentary sense-as distinguished from Adolf Hitler's "heads will roll in the sand!" Last week the Labor Congress, satisfied that it had adopted a policy fresh and vigorous enough to win back millions of lost Labor votes, adjourned singing "The Red Flag." Spit in the Cream! Blackpool is a North British seaside resort that is anything but Red. Rumbling into Blackpool last week came the first-class cars of delegates to the 59th Annual Congress of the Conservative Party. Brass bands boomed "God Save the King." In hurried fashion...
...your "flew, by fits and starts, around the world last year." At best, your statement belittles. If asked for her record she might truthfully say: 1) I am the only airplane to have flown both major oceans nonstop. 2) From a beach in Japan I lifted from the sand and flew with a wing loading of 30 Ib. per sq. ft. The maximum theoretical limit for any airplane is 28 pounds per square foot. 3)1 hold the record of having flown farther over water than any other airplane. 4) I am the only airplane ever to have flown...
...Basle. Pilot Van Orman's Good-year VIII was second with 830 mi., France's Petit Mousse third with 739 mi. Near Warsaw the champion Navy bag drifted so low that laborers seized a drag rope, were hauling the ship down until angry Pilot Settle threw a sand bag at their heads...
...faena and that he gives to the spectators. He is performing a work of art and he is playing with death, bringing it closer, closer, closer, to himself, a death that you know is in the horns because you have the canvas-covered bodies of the horses on the sand to prove it. He gives the feeling of his immortality, and as you watch it, it becomes yours. Then when it belongs to both of you, he proves it with the sword...