Word: winds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Slowly the tug drew ahead of the air liner, for a great wind was blowing from England at almost 90 miles per hour. The plane was speeding like an arrow through the wind and yet was standing still while the tugboat crept forward. At a touch of the pilot's controls the air liner soared up to quiet air, sped on toward London, left the tug behind...
...countries. They seem to think they are swarming with poisonous snakes and vicious insects. All one has to do is use common sense," continued Dr. Allen. "It was however quite difficult to get around. We had to do all our travelling on foot over the narrow rough paths which wind through the dense tropical forests. There are little villages mere clusters of straw huts scattered throughout the interior of Liberia. Our native porters did not want to leave their own villages too far behind so we had to hire a different set of servants at almost every town...
...have visited Harvard for several years. Following this match the semi-finals are held in New York, at Columbia, between Columbia, Tech, Yale, and Dartmouth. Then, if our team qualifies, the members will again go to New York on April 2, to compete in the intercollegiates, which will wind up the season...
...Monday evening, at 8.15 o'clock, in the John Knowles Paine Concert Hall, the Boston Wood Wind Ensemble will give a concert, assisted by Gertrude Erhart, soprano...
...steering wheel and driving devices, for $2,500. Such a boat is the Watercar, made in four models by the Dodge Co. Or, for a little more, you can get a cruiser from the American Car and Foundry Co., a cruiser as neat as a destroyer, with a cool wind always blowing on its deck and a neat shaving of water peeling away from its bow. Perhaps it is a 35-foot cruiser you want, or a 68-foot cruiser with twin screws. It all depends. The 68-foot cruisers have two cabins, an outside cabin with an awning...