Word: smashed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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 with 3,000 lb. of freight* and 290 gallons of extra gasoline, she responded with a twelve-cylinder roar to Pilot Carl B. Eielson's cry for "Contact!" Ice on the runway had melted, leaving about a foot of slush which the Alaskan churned high...
Responsibility for the immediate disturbances is no doubt mutual. The steel of official determination meets the flint of strike lender Weisbord's ultimatums and the fighting spark incites both pickets and policemen. Ideas kindle into action as quickly as a thrown stone can smash a window...
...Howard T. Barnes of McGill University will try to destroy icebergs at their source, in the Greenland glaciers. Here the ice cap is 7,000 feet thick. Vast bits break off at the sea edges to float south to the Newfoundland banks as bergs. Dr. Barnes hopes to smash the glacier edges with thermite, a chemical which develops enormous heat in contact with ice.* (TIME, March...
...departure of M. Yessenin for Moscow in the custody of two private detectives employed by his wife: "Everybody knows my husband is crazy. ... He is better off in Russia where he is loved even if he is foolish. ... He can smash things in Moscow and nobody cares because he is a poet...
...smash came two minutes after the opening gong. It knocked Munn out. It knocked all idea of boxing from his stout head. When he recovered consciousness he gasped: "I'll stick to wrestling hereafter. I'll do no more boxing...