Word: spinning
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...owned a plane ever since. In the autumn of 1929 he observed in his logbook that he had missed only eleven days' flying that year. For fun, he decided to try flying every day. In rain, shine, snow and fog, he went up daily for a 15-minute spin. Even when sub-zero weather grounded the airmail Dr. Brock took off. In dead of winter snowplows cleared runways for him. When he came down ice was chopped from his wings...
...Ride- At St. Ansgar, Iowa last week were gathered 2,000 people to see the town's first Fourth of July celebration in 20 years. They saw a plane lose a piece of wing fabric, spin dizzily into the town's main street, burst spectacularly into flames. Incinerated were the pilot and four joyriders, one a woman...
...given recently when all the members of this same 1914 crew that won the Grand Challenge Cup on the Thames that year held a reunion at the Newell Boathouse. Every one of the men who sat in the victorious boat was present at the reunion and took a trial spin on the Charles. In all but one of the cases the man had increased considerably in weight, but critics said they showed excellent form...
From this initial point of departure Mr. Brooks advances with assurance and easy facility. The evidence which he adduces serves to bolster his case well. The spiritual desert upon which we find ourselves in the beginning was made by Jonathan Edwards. "He was able to spin his inept sublimities by subtracting from his mind every trace of experience, every touch of human nature as it really was among his innocent country folk." He was a rapt and isolated scholar whose wrathful theology found no listener in the market place. On the other hand our great Dr. Franklin with his immense...
...house fly. Commonest in the Mississippi Valley, they are closely related to the black flies which pester humans farther north. Buffalo gnats breed in swift-flowing streams, attaching their wormlike larvae to the downstream side of a large rock or log. After a month or six weeks the larvae spin cocoons, soon emerge full-grown. The first spell of warm weather sends them swarming to fields and barnyards...