Word: tight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fleet visited New York City. From the carriers Lexington, Saratoga and Langley lying miles away in Hampton Roads, via Washington where President Hoover stood at attention as they passed, 134 planes flew to a rendezvous at Staten Island, then swept up the bay over towered Manhattan. They flew in tight, three-plane V-formations which in turn formed larger Vs, a shining flock of metal hawks that filled the city's canyons with the hammering roar of war. At the head of the formation in a Martin bomber, constantly in radio touch with all his following and ordering their...
...like a Packard. I had one that I drove about two hundred and sixty-eight thousand miles. I took care of it, and it never failed me. If I had to get out of a tight place, I could step on the gas, and I knew just what she would do, and she always did it. Owning that Packard to me meant being sure of having the car I liked best, having the exclusive use of it, being sure that no irresponsible person who had no stake in it would put it out of order, being able to take care...
Four costly errors by the Harvard Freshmen enabled the Worcester Academy nine to score a 6 to 4 win yesterday afternoon on the schoolboy diamond. Although the first year men collected seven hits to their opponents' five, the blows were scattered and failed to upset the schoolboys' tight playing...
Divorced. Sir James Heath. 78, British iron tycoon; by Lady Mary Heath, aviatrix (Capetown-to-London); at Reno, Nev. She called Sir James "the tight knight," said he was "a bit touched...
...enough to have gained admission were gawking excitedly at the entrance of three princesses into the Royal Box-Princess Mary and her cousins Princess Helena Victoria and Princess Marie Louise.* Conductor Bruno Walter arose and swept together the first vigorous strains of the Meistersinger overture. Then were displayed the tight-toned "Walther" of Tenor Rudolf Laubenthal; the homely, bourgeois "Sachs" of Baritone Friedrich Schoor; the heavy, smoothly sung "Eva" of Lotte Lehmann, important soprano of the Vienna Staatsoper. London's opera, although on the upgrade so far as quality is concerned, is still of shorter duration than that...