Word: slid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...diminutive Highness, thoughtful company officials tied a bright pink ribbon from the ship's prow to the launching platform. At the appropriate moment Princess Josephine Charlotte toddled to the edge of the platform, snipped the ribbon with a tiny pair of gold-plated scissors. The steamer slid majestically into the water...
...Niagara Falls, George E. Stathakis, Buffalo baker, wrapped himself in a pneumatic mattress, got into a steel & oak barrel, slid over the Horseshoe Falls. Next day his body was recovered...
...from people threatening to dynamite the new yacht on the ways made the officials of the Iron Works uncomfortable; they kept the crowd outside the fence. Mrs. Nichols hit the bow of the Corsair IV with a bottle of 1915 champagne donated by the Iron Works. The Corsair IV slid perfectly into the Kennebec River, where it floated nicely. In the excitement one Fred Meillieux, employe of the Iron Works, fell off a 40-ft. roof...
...across the arches of Putney Bridge as the two crews moved out and headed up the Thames. No Oxford crew had won since 1923, and because this one was rated as no better than other Oxford crews the people on the banks could hardly credit what they saw. Oxford slid out rowing quickly and smoothly, a half-length ahead in a dozen strokes, a length ahead after the first minute. Past Harrod's wharf and under Hammersmith Bridge Oxford was in front and round the bend into rough water and a wind that thinned the falling drops. Over...
Down a swaying rope into a black, hot pit, 1,350 ft. below the earth's surface, 325 ft. lower than anyone had ever gone there before him, slid Frank Ernest Nicholson, journalist-explorer, into the unmeasured depths of the Carlsbad Cave in the Guadalupe Mountains in lower New Mexico. Last week came reports of his expedition, begun in January (TIME, Jan. 27). He told of nightmare rock formations, of crystal clear water and perfect cave pearls in a subterranean pool. While he was drinking, a feeble chirping split the stifling black silence. He investigated, found a nest...