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Word: shod (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...forced back. The bedraggled radio plane got as far as St. Ignace. Mich.; two more got to Munising. Next day they straggled through snow storms to Minot, N. Dak., then to Great Falls, Mont. From Spokane, their terminal, they received bleak news. Weather there had inopportunely moderated. The ski-shod planes needed snow or thick ice for landing. Spokane had neither, temporarily, last week. Major Ralph Royce, leader of the patrol, declared the flight probably the most difficult and hazardous undertaken by a peacetime Army squadron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Frigid Test | 1/20/1930 | See Source »

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