Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Thomas Marshall had trawled the English Channel long enough to know a London-to-Paris airliner when he saw one. He did not hesitate. Rather than delay to haul in his nets, he bade his crew hack them free and pointed his smack's nose towards the spot where the splash must have been...
...that spot, the next 20 minutes were tense. Well aloft, one engine of the double-motored Imperial Airways liner had coughed peevishly and stopped dead. The mechanic had instantly scrambled out to mend it, but returned at once to the cockpit. With twelve people and their baggage aboard the ship was dropping too fast. Pilot Dinsmore had glided into the choppy sea as best he could, but not without pitching overboard one of his passengers, one Peter Kanevaros of Jaffersonville, Ind. While the gentleman from Indiana was bobbing up and paddling back to the plane, Pilot Dinsmore quickly instructed...
...virile old devil. But intelligence from British Columbia marks the passing of the masthead muezzins. A Victoria whaling company has chartered seaplanes to be carried on shipboard to the whaling grounds, launched overside and sent spinning over the ocean in far circles. High over the sea, air observers can "spot" a whale even though he lurk far below the surface; can flash his nautical bearings even to an invisible whaleship and keep leviathan in sight until the harpoons arrive...
...followed one another like the toppling of so many tenpins they were in fact unrelated as to cause. A tourist, darting by commercial air routes from one capital to another might well have been present when each cabinet resigned and have satisfied himself as to the cause upon the spot. Such a tourist would perhaps have made entries in his diary about as follows...
...Nicaraguan coast, lies Santa Catalina island, called Providence by the English, but known to the world of readers as "Treasure Island" This little isle made famous by the magic of Robert Lonis Stevenson's pen is a barren but romantic spot with a rocky cliff towering 180 feet in the air. This entire coast was once the haunt of the buccaneers, and the people of the island still show traces of the freebooters...