Word: wilds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year ago airplanes brushed through the clouds above the wild Atlantic, in this last summer tiny boats, smaller than those which first traversed it, have been the most spectacular traffickers upon its wastes. The smallest of all these is the canoe, equipped with oar-locks, sails and a motor, in which Franz Romer started out last March from Lisbon to "row" across the Atlantic to New York. This canoe, the Deutsche Sport, arrived in Saint Thomas a month ago (TIME, Aug. 13) and left Porto Rico two weeks later, bound for Florida. The southeastern skies grew dark and a huge...
...motors for airplanes. Ford, Packard and Auburn have long been connected with flying, General Motors not at all. Yet the du Ponts have given financial backing to Guiseppe Bellanca, plane designer. And the du Ponts are a large part of General Motors. So the industrial surmise is not so wild that General Motors will soon make airplanes and equipment...
Last week when he arrived, alert music-listeners were in a stew of excitement. They longed to see Stokowski and to ask him to play for them the wild notes of songs which western ears had never heard before. "What have you brought us?" they cried; whereupon Leopold Stokowski showed them three Javanese gongs, sacred objects which made a pleasant noise when struck. These he said he had wheedled from the Sultan of Java...
...this was at the time when the transCaucasian "activists" were first forming themselves. "Their members belonged to small nations from all over Caucasia, mostly wild illiterates, nomads, warriors who could remember the days of the holy Imam Schamil...
Futile had been the attempt to cure the young mute by the sudden changes of air pressure incident to so wild an airplane ride. Such cures have occasionally resulted when deafness or vocal paralysis was functional. But not when either was organic, as in this case. Julius Shaefer was mute from a lesion in his brain. Yet, his mother, against the objection of her Dr. Samuel C. Reiss, had put her child through the ordeal, stubbornly faithful that science could cure...