Word: wind
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...North Sea tossed and heaved. The tides rose ominously. Waves slapped and pounded the stone dykes at Zeebrugge and Nieuport. An Eastern wind blew foam from the sea onto the land...
Hang out its ancient secrets in the strong wind...
Portland, Me. In a biting wind through clouds that threatened snow, 50 military and commercial flyers raced and stunted near Portland, Me., last week to commemorate the opening of its airport at Scarboro. It is the first port in a chain of 25 that the Curtiss Flying Service will operate in the East...
Thirty-eight thousand feet above Dayton, Ohio, Capt. A. W. Stevens and Lieut. J. H. Doolittle were taking photographs. When their instruments indicated that they were flying toward the city at the rate of a mile a minute, they were in reality being carried away by a head wind of 115 miles an hour. Soon the thermometer registered 57° below zero and instruments ceased to work at all. Finally the oxygen line to Capt. Stevens' breathing cap froze and his head nodded forward. When Lieut. Doolittle struck him a stinging blow in the face he recovered just long...
Herbert Bayard Swope, of the Democratic New York World, bought an estate worth $450,000 on Long Island. Its name is "Keewaydin." This means, the Republican and opposition New York Herald-Tribune hastened to point out, "Northwest Wind, or, in some dialects, Very...