Word: westbound
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...physical side of operations, success is remarkable. In the first 31 days of the service 173,910 miles were flown. In spite of cloudbursts, tornados and severe electric storms, average westbound time of 39 hrs. 49 min. and eastbound time of 36 hrs. 21 min. were maintained. The poorest air mail schedule was 30 hours faster than that of the best rail schedule...
High over the Bay of Bengal sped a lone seaplane, bound for the coast of Burma. Looking down on the watery waste, the pilot beheld three other seaplanes, westbound. The man above was Major A. Stuart MacLaren, British Air Force; the planes below bore Lieutenants Smith, Wade and Nelson, of the U. S. A. It was the meeting of history's first round-the-globe air-racers, but the participants did not stop to exchange greetings...
Dempsey. Stepping off a westbound train at Salt Lake City, the champion was met by his mother...
...fundamental causes of Harvard's great failure as a training place for the higher intellectual freedom; it is the nearness of Cambridge to Boston, --an overwhelming fact--which impressed me, as I sat in the subway train reading the list of stations: Harvard, Central, Kendall, Park (Westbound read up; Eastbound read down; and if you aren't bound, anywhere, just ignore...