Word: veer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drowsy he will set his controls, set the clock for ten minutes and doze off. At ten minutes the siren will howl, the tank will squirt cold water in the General's face. Siren and water spout are also adjusted to shriek and squirt if the plane should veer from her course, droop from her altitude. Said General de Pinedo...
There was a chance that the wind would veer and drive them all back to shore. But when the floe with most of the dogs disappeared, together with three floes with stores, no matter what thereafter might happen, the expedition was ruined. Captain Riiser-Larsen rigged up his portable wireless, called for help...
Booth tried to dropkick on the Harvard 14-yd. line early in the second quarter. A dejected little fellow, his mouth wide open, his eyes squinting, he watched his kick veer outside the east goalpost...
Best cinematography?Willard Van der Veer and Joseph T. Rucker (With Byrd at the South Pole...
With Byrd at the South Pole (Paramount). No matter what the scientific value of the Byrd expedition, there is no doubting the fact that Byrd's two photographers, Joseph Rucker and Willard Van der Veer, did some epic work. They show you clearly what an exploration party is like: men dealing minutely with a great isolation, making laborious preparations against hypothetical crises, living every day so as to come a step nearer an illusory goal. Pushing past the Ross Barrier (wall of ice guarding Antarctica) to and over the Queen Maude Mountains, Byrd and his men moved...