Word: winds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Obiter Dicta. "The next war may well start in the air, but in all probability will wind up, as the last...
...Court of Inquiry into the wrecking of the Shenandoah adjourned last week?probably for good. If the Judge Advocate of the Court decides to call Colonel Mitchell a second time,* the Court may reconvene. The final testimony was that of experts as to wind stresses, strength of the airship's frame...
With only a few exceptions the survivors of the disaster and the Government experts seemed agreed that the wreck of the ship was due to excessive wind stresses in the heart of a storm. The principal other theory advanced was that one or more of the gas cells of the ship had burst from internal pressure when the ship was forced up to great height...
Under a railroad trestle and down a rutty stretch of frost-baked road near Van Cortlandt Park, the Bronx, loped a slender runner in a crimson jersey. He crested a hill and the autumn wind reached for him, baffling his breath like a hand laid over his mouth; he twisted his head to look for a rangy man who had been running at his side. For about half an hour these two, accompanied by 106 other runners from various eastern colleges, had been racing against each other over a six-mile trail for the hill-and-dale intercollegiate championship...
...done it is still open to doubt. Supposing that Mr. Griffith is still capable of another "Birth of a Nation," it might be well for him to hunt around for a story. As it is he has gone to work with W.C. Fields, Carol Dempster and a lot of wind machines. It may be even possible that the wind machines were borrowed from other sets, because it seems impossible that a normal supply could create such a fiendish storm. Mr. Griffith doesn't content himself with a mere cyclone; he has to have three or four tornadoes going...