Word: windblown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...British R-34's fast flight was from New York to England, and over a windblown distance 800 miles less than the Graf Zeppelin's return trip...
...really better to go hatless? Is a windblown, dust-swept, rain-soaked, hail-battered or snow-covered hatless head best? Is it better than a head simmering in its own heat under a piece of felt that may have been worn for months...
...boom-de-ay'?" Of course the reader remembers, with gusto. The museum trip continues. ". . . And when Michigan Avenue [the book is dedicated to Chicagoans who turned the century] was a dirt road leading south from the greasy river, past brownstone respectability to prairie pioneering in those windblown, grass-grown suburbs, Oakland, Hyde Park, the Midway? And how Chicago sprang up and spread out, so that when the World's Fair opened, with the world's biggest this and the world's finest that, it was a city, with plenty of black smoke and red light neighborhoods...