Word: hours
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...changing of place at a hundred miles an hour . . . will make us one whit stronger, happier or wiser...
...went down with the tug. The other five crewmen managed to launch the small lifeboat. It, too, soon capsized. The only man who could not swim, Gerald Anderson, 17, managed to crawl athwart the upturned lifeboat. One by one the others lost their grip and went down. An hour and a half later the lifeboat washed ashore and Anderson was picked...
...would meet the air again and turn into a non-powered glider. Coasting through the air for another 1,800 miles, it would land at 150 m.p.h.-not much more than the landing speed of many modern fighter craft. Duration of flight from Los Angeles to New York: one hour...
...Stuempfig somehow combines his absorption in art with "generally fulfilling the job of parent. It's either work or stomach ulcers for me because if I don't paint I get sick." For the last 15 years he has been painting an average 56-hour week, alternately learning and ignoring his craft...
Within the hour, NBC switchboards throughout the country were jammed with frantic phone calls from children wanting verification of the news. Next day, the Chicago Sun-Times, which had had its share of calls, headlined: "Children: Santa Has NOT Been Shot." Penitent NBC prefaced its next day's News of the World with an interview, over a "special super-radio circuit," between Commentator Morgan Beatty in Houston and Santa Claus at the North Pole. Said Santa, reassuringly: "John L. Lewis just missed...