Word: sledding
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...French have planned a compromise type of expedition, using motor sledges in co-operation with collapsible amphibian planes. Their sledges differ from the caterpillar-tread ones that failed Wilkins, having suction-grip rubber "paws" on a traction wheel extended in front of the sled-runners...
...kills his horse driving back to Preobrashensk, and arrives with wolves harnessed to his sled. He meets a rebellious regiment and touches with his whip handle the men to be hanged by their com rades. Before the Cathedral of Saint Basil blood flows from his manifold executions. Other rebels are hanged and sent floating down the Don on rafts...
...over the North Pole in a small dirigible and only abandoned the plan when his air-ship's construction was delayed. The Iceland was bound for Gilles Land (east of Spitsbergen) where Mr. Algarsson proposed to do geological surveying. He will then attempt to go (by boat, sled and foot) "further north than any expedition this year," not excluding Amundsen's and MacMillan...
...where Curtiss was born, they used to call him "handy at fixing things." Also they would say: "I knew be could do it." Ingenuity, mechanical skill, persistence, enterprise, daring-these were Glenn Curtiss' qualities as early as the days when his bicycle was the speediest, his sled coasted farthest, his motor-cycle a wonder of the day, his skate-sail unique, his birds'-egg collection largest and rarest of all his comrades. His appetite for speed has always been insatiable. Now 46, he still ponders engine construction, streamline, weight reduction in hopes of letting man move faster...
Their program. When this bill is introduced it will " have hard sled- fling " in committee, as Messrs. Borah and Woodruff admit. In the Senate Judiciary Committee, especially, there will be difficulty, for the Committee includes Brandegee of Connecticut (Chairman), Cummins of Iowa, Colt of Rhode Island, Sterling of South Dakota, Shortridge of California, Walsh of Montana. Almost its only supporters will be Mr. Borah himself and Senator Norris of Nebraska. But the proponents of the bill hope to get it out on the floor of Congress and fight for it there...