Word: upper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Drop that language!'' he roared, his big mustache fluttering like an angry brown moth on his upper lip. "Such words are not suitable to Parliament. I won't tolerate such language. Go use it on the streets...
...biggest land plane was Imperial Airways' proud Hannibal, the 38-passenger biplane which went into service only a month ago. With 18 passengers, including four Americans, the ship had started from Croydon for Paris in a storm. Over Kent one of the upper propellers whirled itself to pieces, the fragments fell and disabled the engine below it, somehow put a third one out of commission. Pilot F. Dinsmore skilfully brought the crippled ship down into a meadow. No one was hurt, but the handsome plane with its luxurious cabin and cocktail bar was expensively smashed...
Corporal Cain the second before he stepped off the plane's wing (see upper cut). But the open, straining mouth did not express terror or anguish; Corporal Cain was merely gasping in one last deep breath of rushing air before his plunge. Another view (see lower cut) showed what the parachutist sees as he looks down to select a landing spot...
...instance: instead of just one along the bottom, from nose to tail, the Akron has three-one under the top of the envelope, the two others along the sides, about a quarter of the way up from the bottom. Through each keel frame runs a triangular catwalk, the upper one giving access to the safety release valves above the helium bags. The lower ones serve as corridors to the engine rooms, airplane hangar, crew quarters, galley, messrooms; leading forward to the mooring apparatus and aft to an emergency control car inside the lower...
...Tottenville, N. Y. two grubby poodles dozed on the broken flagging beside the back porch of a two-story frame house one day last week. On the upper porch crawled Joseph Freyer, 14 months. He found a place where balusters were missing from the balustrade, crawled through, plumped 18 ft. down on the dozing dogs, was unhurt. So were the poodles...