Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drizzly night last week, TWA Pilot Jack Zimmerman, with 20 passengers behind him, circled over The Bronx. With the scattered lights of Central Park on his right, to his left stretched the darkened reaches of Long Island sound. Ahead of him lay a floodlit field with a runway 6,000 feet long and 200 feet wide, Runway No. 1 of New York City's North Beach airport. Jack Zimmerman plunked the DC-3 down short, turned right and taxied up to the administration building where swart Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia and a knot of city bigwigs waited in a crowd...
...acres were moved from nearby Riker's Island; six huge hangars, each large enough to house a football gridiron with room for bleachers, six restaurants, one with cocktail lounge and nightclub; offices for rent by the day to busy executives (the most expensive, $75 a day); a sound-proofed engine test building; the finest seaplane terminal in the world where trans-Atlantic planes can dock in the roughest weather. Clear of approach obstructions to jangle the nerves of pilots, the field also has many a piece of expensive equipment to make life easier. Examples: a stop-go traffic light...
Best shot: Richard and Mord drowning the Duke of Clarence, Richard's brother, in a vast butt of malmsey-bibulous Clarence's favorite tipple-with beautifully bubblous sound effects...
...Angeles, John H. Mills, 70, classed as physically unfit, pleaded with the school board to give him back his job, said, "I'm as sound and healthy as I ever was . . . ," so saying, fell dead...
Dorgan gives as his definition of the term "the right of educators to teach the truth, not propaganda, and to inculcate sound and right principles in the minds of their subjects...