Word: coasted
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...publicity and make a noise about what it was doing with aircraft, this so-called Hawaiian flight was arranged for. Three airplanes were built to participate in it. These showed nothing novel in design and were untried for this kind of work. One never got away from the Pacific Coast, another flew a few miles out and was forced to land in the water, and one was lost on account of being out of gas somewhere on the high seas...
...wide expanse of sea no other lights were visible. Yet ships, big and little, airplanes and dirigibles were speeding through the darkness about them. A week's sham battle at sea was in progress. The "Red" fleet based on Sardinia was to try to capture the southwestern coast of Italy. The "Blue" fleet based on Sicily will attempt to hold off the invaders. Premier Mussolini was too busy to be present...
...Shanghai, international city of the central coast, L'Echo de Chine, ridiculed the "friendly weakness" of the U. S.: "If Senator Borah had to live in the interior of China he would realize the value of extra-territoriality...
...melodrama in some months came in under this title and unwrapped a good deal of sound excitement. On a lonely lighthouse lives a not very young woman and her reluctant ward. The latter longs for the land and love. The latter she has learned from a fisherman along the coast, learned more completely than she expected as we learn promptly in the first act. To shield her fisherman she accuses a Government engineer and the latter gets a bullet in the arm from the enraged keeper...
...into the seas of seething slush to lighten the stranded hull. Nearby, a cruising iceberg burst with a dull report, setting up a monstrous wash which swept the Bowdoin off her perch. On southward steamed the ships. The elements relented. Dread Melville Bay, frigid storm-pocket of that Greenland Coast, lay unexpectedly calm and free of ice. Still skirting shore, the ships made for Disko Island (their coaling station on the way north), the Peary leading the way with MacMillan aboard. The latter discussed with Commander Byrd the likelihood of repairing one of their two disabled planes and making exploration...