Word: motionless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...next day the storm-signals were hoisted and speedily changed to hurricane warnings. The barometer was around 29.25, falling fast. The sky was yellowish. Pelicans stood motionless on keys in ridiculous single file, ogled each other. It grew black...
...rely upon "riding out" the "navigable semicircle" at anchor. Due to the rotating movement of the earth, all these hurricanes revolve (counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere) in a manner similar to U. S. western tornadoes, save that, of course, they are vastly more destructive. The centre is sometimes almost motionless, whereas the outside rim attains the greatest speed in exactly the same manner that the outside rim of any circular object-a wheel, for example-travels faster than any point nearer the centre. Hence seamen invariably reach a calm spot when fighting their way through these hurricanes...
...hours and 21 minutes a creature soared silently, with motionless wings, near Koenigsberg, Germany, one day last week. A thunder shower forced it to earth. It was the glider Goethen, holder of the previous world's record of 5 hr. 40 min. for motorless heavier-than-air craft with pilot and passenger.* It bore Ferdinand Schulz and a companion. Pilot Schulz's skill lies in utilizing air currents after leaving a lofty takeoff, as do eagles and other birds capable of staying aloft for hours with never a wing beat. He declares he is confident...
...were first hung up last October. Numerous attempts had been made to explain their motion, which seemed perpetual, visitors flocked daily to the Museum to see the University's modern wonder. Then yesterday when people came in to watch them at their expected rounds were astounded to see them motionless. They still hung, however, in their usual case just as before; here was another mystery greater than the first...
...Norway, a large white dog emerged from a doorway. The street was snowbound, deserted; the dog, lonely. When a pedestrian did pass by the dog nuzzled her sleeve, seized her tippet, trotted beside, baying. Alarmed, the pedestrian, Gunaelia Lovenskiolde, charwoman, aged 72, took flight, stumbled screaming, fell heavily, lay motionless and silent. The dog lay down beside, where its owner, Olaf Stang, found it on his way home. Fearful lest the dog get chilled, he led it to his hovel, locked it in, before assisting the unconscious woman. Neighbors witnessing, had Olaf arrested "for loving his dog better than...