Word: winds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...result the same ten months sees the impossible New York to Paris flight accomplished and a Boston-New York boat, on its regularly scheduled trip, wrecked twenty miles from its starting place. Wind and water combined to take the lives of three of the Coast Guardsmen detailed to rescue the boat's passengers; another tragedy, and three more lives added to the endless roll...
This move took a lot of wind out of the next figure on the scene, who was none other than Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson of Chicago, self-anointed savior of the Mississippi Basin. He blustered into town calling the Coolidge compromise plan "absurd," saying he had come (as chairman of the Thompson-invented Flood Control Conference) to put over the Reid bill. President Coolidge invited him to luncheon. When he heard about the Madden appointment and President Coolidge's willingness to waive the question of State-shared costs, except in principle, for the present, so that work...
Captain Malcolm Campbell, big-jawed, handsome British automobile racer, drove his Campbell-Napier Blue Bird car one mile with the wind over the hard sands of Daytona Beach, Fla. Speed: 214.79 m.p.h. He drove it back a mile against the wind. Speed: 199.66 m.p.h. Thus, he set a new official automobile record of 206.95 m.p.h. The old record had been made a year ago by Major H. O. D. Seagrave, also British, in a Sunbeam car going 203.79 m.p.h...
...most lovely where men have most suffered. George Washington marched his men to Valley Forge, now a vast well-kept park, along roads that were rutted with ice. The tents went up along the hilltop and the soldiers built their fires in the dark. Night after night the wind blew down like a white wolf, blew the snow up over the small starry fires and howled at Washington's army from a cold, tremendous sky. Soldiers have been brave before and since; Washington's men heard the wind capering like a white wolf in the snowy...
...After he became a parson, he could not lose his intense feeling for the past; when he told his Sunday school about Joshua, he could hear trumpets sounding and the roar of falling walls. His parish was in Norristown, Pa.; on winter nights he could imagine that the cold wind crying at his window was still blowing snowdrifts over an army's fires. In 1903 he outlined the Washington Memorial at Valley Forge. That same year, 125 years after Washington's soldiers had marched down the hill to win a war, the cornerstone of the Washington Memorial Chapel...