Word: knots
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Little Knot of Blue...
...water, and since the bergs ride about seven-eights under water, the total weight of each is about 800,000 tons. Icebergs have a most mystifying habit of seeking cold pockets in the ocean. When a berg is traveling South at its serene and prescribed rate of half a knot an hour, it will suddenly change its course and will head direct for the only cold pocket within many miles. This is known to the experts as rhigotropism...
...Emmanuel of Italy welcomed us in his summer palace at Pisa." "He is," said the Commander, "the most affable, democratic monarch it would be possible to meet. His speaking such perfect English made things especially easy for us." During the Pisa visit as the King finished talking with a knot of Legionaries and turned to leave them, a U. S. voice boomed: "Gangway for the King...
...Come into this death house with me," began Mr. Grey. Lurid details followed. Among them: "Elliott, the official killer, stood to the right of him with a fiendish grin on his face. ... He leaped, literally leaped, to the switchboard. . . . The switch went in. ... Sacco's hands . . . doubled into a knot. The veins in his long, thin, white hands began to rise and kept on rising until I thought they would burst and drench all of us with blood. . . . Sacco's neck was swelling to a huge inhuman size. . . . The saliva was literally pouring out of his mouth. . . . Try to compare...
Meanwhile the Ile de France sped on, driven by four turbines, at 23 knots.† Although this is slower than the 28 knot Mauretania, "fastest ship in the world," the Ile de France will shortly be equipped with seaplanes from which hurried passengers may be shot from her deck two days before she lands...