Word: flew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rivalry of great newspapers can at times give way to courtesy. In the press room of The New York World, a spark from a dynamo flew into a pile of papers and started a fire that damaged two presses and stopped the remainder. The General Manager of The New York Herald (Munsey), rival morning paper, on hearing of the fire, at once offered the World the use of his presses...
Caliph Abdul Medjid, as a private citizen, lowered the Crescent to half-mast on the state yacht and palaces. Flags of the Allied warships on the Bosphorus and in the Dardanelles, all flew their flags at half-mast...
...Crown Prince have become so energetic that the Dutch authorities are alarmed. Twice within a few weeks the Imperial German flag has been raised on Dutch soil, once over a seaside villa in which the ex-Kaiser was visiting, and again at Wieringen, when a yacht called Hohenzollern flew it on the occasion of a mysterious visit to the ex-Crown Prince...
From Icarus on, famous flyers have usually been less than 30 years of age ?famous pilots, that is. But it must be remembered that it was an older man, Daedalus, an engineer and a sculptor, who designed the Icarian monoplane and successfully flew it from Crete to Italy...
...near Schenectady, N. Y., John D. Smith, of Chicago, jumped at 2,000 feet with a parachute which failed to open. Entanglement in the landing gear of the plane checked his fall, but desperate attempts to climb into the cockpit were futile. The pilot with admirable presence of mind flew a few feet above the Mohawk River into which the parachutist jumped. But not knowing how to swim, he was rescued just in time from drowning - and probably gave no further exhibitions that...