Word: soar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...individual sportsman flyer were to insure himself for $5,000, his ship for $3,000 (against fire, theft, etc.). and take average coverage for public liability, passenger liability and property damage, his yearly premiums would total upward of $460. Were he to add crash insurance the figure would soar to $910-considerably more than a whole year's depreciation of his plane. Also, he would be hampered by numerous flight restrictions. Not long ago rates were even higher. Prime reason was lack of data on amateurs' accidents, forcing the conclusion that all private flyers were bad risks. Last...
...activities of the boys of Italy. It is not likely that the established order in Italy will do honor even in death (if indeed he is lost) to one who gave his life in an effort to destroy that order-yet the spirit of de Bosis will continue to soar even if his body has crashed to earth in the wreckage of Pegasus...
Said Life's open letter: ". . . For a month or two now the toilers of the fairway have been knocking your new ball around. ... They are thwacking it mightily into the toughest gale, watching it hover and dip and rise again, often to soar away like a homing bird into the trees to some unplayable nest. They are putting it diligently into the cup, diligently and boldly-boy, she's in!-oop-a curl and a flip and out pops Big Boy for another try. ... It was a disappointment in May; it will be hated in June...
Brown, who failed in three trials only by a narrow margin to better his own newly-established record, is a nephew of R. A. Gardner, Eli bamboo expert who was first to soar successfully at 13 ft. Crimson spectators commented with regret that the new interscholastic champion is intending to join the already powerful Blue vaulting squad "Brown has a good sturdy build," Mikkola commented "though he doesn't hold himself as straight as Sutermeister. It's too early to may whether he will ever go on to break would records: he may reach 14 ft. and then stop...
Instead of being confined on Madison Avenue I could soar in a jiffy to Second or Third...