Word: sightedness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
The evening of the second day they sighted land through the cloud rack, Point Barrow. The last 850 miles had been through fog banks and snow. Ice had been forming on the Norge's rigging and gondola, thence the engine vibration shook it loose in big pieces. The pieces...
Born in Zanesville, Ohio, in 1859, educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cass Gilbert designed the Capitols of Minnesota, West Virginia, Arkansas, the customs house in Manhattan, the public libraries in St. Louis and Detroit, the state universities of Minnesota and Texas. Poring over a draftboard has made him...
Fearing the extinction of whales but, because of their size and shyness, knowing little of their dietary and conjugal habits, their birthrate and the length of their lives, the British Government is sending a ship to sea for two and a half years of whale study, it announced last week...
Wilkins. One morning the big monoplane Alaskan was trundled out of her shed at Fairbanks, Alaska, and placed on an inclined runway. Since her smash into a wire fence three weeks ago, repairs had been swiftly made on her propeller, fuselage and landing gear. Tuned to a new perfection, loaded...
Destroying icebergs is dangerous work. Usually a small boat puts off from the cutter carrying high explosives, which are planted at accessible spots. Sometimes, though, overhanging ledges threaten to snap off with cold, pitiless destruction. Here mines are floated down. Often a berg is too enormous to destroy; one has...