Word: sightedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Twenty years ago this week Louis Bleriot, Frenchman, flew the first airplane across the English Channel, from Calais to Dover.-* Just now Louis Bleriot is in Paris receiving plaudits for the anniversary. From Paris he will go to London for more plaudits and a pleasant sight-a model of his plane prominently displayed in the historical aviation exhibit of London's International Aero Exhibition, which the Prince of Wales opened last week...
...Other Fiske inventions include the naval telescope sight, now in worldwide use, radio control for steering ships, submarine detecting apparatus, many others, most of which he sold to private concerns, which in turn sold them to the government...
...regular agents but deputized for this raid. They fingered their gun triggers menacingly. Farmer Harris, mistaking them for bandits, lifted his shotgun down from behind the stove, prepared to defend his home. One of the unofficial raiders was snooping under a chicken coop for a still when he caught sight of Harris and Lowery. He pulled the trigger on his revolver. Harris dropped. Lowery started to run. Shots followed him, brought him to the ground. Both men were dead by sunset...
Reparations. The Experts' report from Paris was "being considered." Rhineland evacuation was in sight...
...talked sport, adventure, glory at him. The trip would be safe and sure. They would fly from Chicago to Milwaukee, make a courteous gesture to Leif Ericsson's statue there, go across Canada to Cape Chidley at the northernmost tip of Labrador, skip over water but in sight of land to Cape Walsingham on Baffin Island, jump across Davis Strait to Mt. Evans, Greenland. From Mt. Evans they would cross the Greenland ice cap to Angmagsalik and then over water to Reykjavik, Iceland. From Iceland they would try for Bergen, Norway, stopping at the Faroe or Shetland islands...