Word: goodbye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hands at Lakehurst waved goodby at her and for almost a day she was seen no more from land. Her wireless, however, reported her nosing smoothly southward -off Cape Charles, Savannah, Jacksonville, Daytona. Night watchers at Nassau, British Bahamas, thought that they saw her bulk. Then she was a little...
As David grew up in Centralia he began more and more to understand the broad tolerance, the bitter and sympathetic scepticism that, had they been alloyed with ambition, would have made his brother Henry great as well as splendid. David, possessing that ambition, strengthened it upon his brother's...
¶The long black snout of a locomotive snuffled loudly and puffed rings and flowers of white smoke into a dark blue breezy evening. Bands played and the people of Rapid City cheered, waved, called "Goodby . . . Good-by Grace! . . . Good-by Cal. . . ." President Coolidge stood bowing and gesticulating; he made...
Byrd. After discussing his plans with President Coolidge at the White House and receiving Godspeed; after taking his leave of Secretary of the Navy Wilbur; after testing and christening and testing again his triple-engined Fokker monoplane, the Josephine Ford (in honor of a 3-year-old daughter of a...
Boarding-school boys are often very ingenious. They will work for hours to save themselves ten minutes of routine. Among them an invention has been perfected whereby, when an alarm clock rings, pulleys and weights are set in motion which in turn close a window, turn on a radiator, light...