Word: overhead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Overhead droned and Doomed in salute 100 naval aircraft. Slipped and slithered beneath the waves a goodly representation of the 98 submarines built or building, which ensure the safety of France from her friends, since the navies of her enemies have been virtually destroyed. Most potent of the new French surface ships are the cruisers Duquesne and Tourville, each of 10,000 tons, and capable of hurtling toward an enemy at 40 miles an hour...
...eleventh of the strike, the signs were still posted. Some 22,000 mule-spinners, loom-fixers, weavers, carders, slasher-tenders, fram-spinners and doffers, warp-dressers, beamers and twisters had lost about $4,000,000 in wages and the mills had lost some $1,820,000 in idle overhead. Mediation by citizens remained futile. New Bedford was a dead city, except for the fish trade. . . . But the cloth market's season for fall goods was at hand. Labor predicted a "victory...
Human beings, accustomed to the whir of airplanes overhead, remain calm, fail to tremble. Not so giraffes, zebras, sable antelopes, rhinoceroses, hippopotamuses. Fearing these charges will dash themselves to death in their fright, Sol A. Stephan, manager of the Cincinnati Zoo (see p. 21), last week requested airport authorities to reroute all airplanes to avoid...
...House postal-pay bills, benefiting nightworkers and fourth-class postmasters; sent the bills to the Senate. (President Coolidge's objections had been, that night-working postal employes received ample raises in 1926; that fourth-class postmasters mostly keep stores or do other private business, to the overhead of which their postal duties add nothing...
...activity. Helium, oxygen, nitrogen are common in the earth. Have they always existed as helium, oxygen, nitrogen; or have they been formed and are they being formed from the hydrogen which is so abundant in the soil? Is it possible that the terrific activity which goes on high overhead is taking place underfoot at the same time? It is, says Science...