Word: overshot
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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...airways for the Italian Government (TIME, Aug. 25), who had preceded the U. S. couple out of Reykjavik by a few minutes, did not turn up in Ivigtut that night. The Americans had last seen him as they neared the Greenland fog banks and felt sure he had not overshot his mark. Searchers from Ivigtut cruised the perilous icebound coast to eastward, Esquimaux trotted along the shore, looking, looking. Late Sunday night, 125 miles from shore, floating helplessly with a dead motor, Locatelli and his companions were sighted amid the waves by the U. S. cruiser Richmond, were taken aboard...