Word: soaring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...private aircraft, New Yorkers own 387. Other strongly air-minded states are: Illinois-350; Michigan-291; Texas-269; Ohio-231; Missouri-216; Pennsylvania-212. Rhode Island has nine civilian planes; Vermont, only three. Despite the heavy population of the East, Westerners and Middle Westerners are manifestly more eager to soar...
Since his graduation from Harvard in 1921, young Mr. Cowles has gradually taken over the direction of the two newspapers that his father built up with various consolidations. He has given them a distinctly metropolitan aroma, made their circulations soar, increased subscription rates. For he believes that "the larger the proportion of its revenue a successful newspaper receives from its readers the stronger is that newspaper's position...
Hero. A fierce, tropical storm was raging when orders came for the five U. S. bombers to soar up from their base at Managua and succor the 39 marines besieged in Ocotal. He who led the bombers through the storm was 42-year-old Major Ross Erastus ("Rusty") Rowell, an airman only four years in the service...
...circuits he announced in Paris that during the next eight years he would try to 1) take 50 men (including ten scientists), many dogs and sledges and two planes, to explore the unmapped South Polar region,* which may be largely free of snow in antarctic summer months; 2) to soar over the wide jungles of Brazil, mapping mountains and rivers; 3) cruise the length and breadth of the Arabian Desert. Asked if he might not try a bird's-eye look at Mt. Everest, Commander Byrd said: "That's an interesting flight but it's not in my line...
...when she prays to the Virgin for strength to keep her Spanish down. A happy ending and retribution follow the return of the gipsy man with the whip for his "woman." Effective staging surrounds this cloud-lace fabric with an air of reality. Also Blanche Yurka can soar to glory on the wings of feeble dialogue. To those not too well acquainted with the ways of the theatre, The Squall will offer two and a half hours of simple, tense make-believe...