Word: tightly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...broken the world's airplane altitude record and could get no higher, the lone pilot in the enclosed cockpit started down. Near exhaustion from the height, he began getting dizzy as the plane dived toward normal air, suddenly realized that not enough oxygen was flowing into his air-tight suit, that he was about to suffocate. Frantically he tried to open the zipper of his suit and the window of his plane. Failing, he used the last remnant of his strength to snatch a knife from the wall, slit open his helmet, gulp the air that rushed...
...Cardinals helped put each other out of the race. All told, the Giants made only 742 runs all season. The team has the league's leading home run hitter in Melvin Ott and Manager Terry is a dependable batter but most of its games have been won by tight fielding and smart pitching. If one run was often enough to beat the Giants, one run was even more often enough to win for them. Trying to pick the World Series winner last week, baseball experts quickly boiled it down to a question of whether Giant pitching-by Hubbell, Schumacher...
...musical saw and Queen Victoria Eugenie had permitted herself to be publicly amused at the ship's concert by long-nosed Buffoon Jimmy Durante. Passengers told how a contingent of Spanish Monarchist youths sailed on the Conte di Savoia from the French Riviera to Gibraltar to enlist and tight with the Spanish Whites. To them Victoria Eugenie was "Our Queen." They knelt to Her Majesty and kissed her hand while the Italian band played the Spanish royal anthem. Thus in pathetic dignity Victoria Eugenie steamed past and saw at close range the Spain in which her life was dogged...
...could apply for membership last week, but Legion organizers said that all candidates will be carefully scrutinized, required to take this oath: "I will defend my country and its social order and give my life and property willingly for its Corporative State. I will repudiate and tight Communist doctrines...
Into the office of Cook County School Superintendent Noble J. Puffer one day last month marched a tight-lipped delegation of three. They were teachers from School District No. 86, on the edge of Chicago's northwest suburbs, who had come to tell Superintendent Puffer what they had just told their school board about Principal Charles O'Hearn. Said Teacher Clarabelle Lindsay, 26: "He keeps putting his hands on me." Said Teacher Laurinda Cleary, 26: "On me, too." Gasped Teacher Mary Hammond, 50: "My, my! He took me in the basement and hugged...