Word: strangerness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Edward Pearson Warner has taught aviation engineering at M. I. T. In 1924 he was made a full professor. Air-literary as well as air-minded, he has writ ten two volumes on engineering aspects of the industry, has also written many an article for aeronautical publications. No stranger in the offices of the magazine he is to edit, Professor-Secretary-Editor Warner helped to prepare some of Aviation's first early issues in 1916, has since con tributed to it not a few learned treatises on various phases of aircraft manufacture and development...
...headlights hollowed out a bright cone of light in the enveloping blackness. Suddenly, into the bright cone, four men sprang from the roadside, shouted to him to halt. Before he knew it, Kinne was grovelling on the tonneau floor, a gun at his back. His car, with a stranger at the wheel, was streaking away at 60 m. p. h. A tire blew out. The car overturned. All five men were flung into a ditch, unhurt. W. L. Tribbey and Paul Kille, neighbors, drove up, offered help, were greeted with guns. Would-be Rescuer Kille was beaten over the head...
Engineer Court last week was walking home from the building where he tends furnaces when a stranger offered him $10,000 for his ticket. Shrewdly Mr. Court refused, said later to newsgatherers: "I knew then I had something good, so I just held on to it." That night he learned that he had won. Engineer Court's plans: to "take that vacation after all and go fishing," to buy his own home, to provide education for his children, Lawrence, Florence, Floracene, Juanita, Clyde. His other three children are already educated. Engineer Court will not, however, receive the entire value...
...Manhattan Bridge, the stranger said: "It's a fine night, isn't it?" Answered James Albrecht, an out-of-a-job printer: "Kind of chilly, don't you think?" "Per-haps," said the stranger, "But just look at that beautiful moon." The next thing the stranger said was "Goodbye, good luck and God bless you." As he said this he was falling through the dark air into the river...
Those who knew him well detected in it a hidden sweetness; but against the stranger it burned and glared, and guarded all avenues of approach. Startled it was like the eye of a wild animal, and penetrating. "peering through the portals of the brain like the brass cannon." Over it crouched bushy brows, and all around the great head bristled white hair, on forehead, cheeks, and lips, so that little flesh remained visible, and the life was settled in two fiery spots. This concentration of expression in the few elementary features of shape, hair, and eyes made the head...