Word: streakings
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...week. The birds were to be used this week in the christening ceremonies of the Navy's huge new dirigible Akron, of which Commander Wicks is construction superintendent. It was his hope that the pigeons would flutter gaily out through the orange-peel doors of the dock and streak for home when Mrs. Herbert Hoover set them free. Hence the suggestions of the Akron's officers: "The thing to do is starve the pigeons first. . . . Get only males that haven't had shore leave for a month...
...small group of drenched spectators, "Somebody want to crank me up?" The light of photographers' flares and the stabbing finger of a revolving beacon picked out the white Lockheed at the head of the runway for a moment. Then a roar from the supercharged Wasp motor, a streak down the field, and the Winnie Mae's navigating lights were blinking a "goodbye" from the North...
...high time we segregate . . . the advocates of our retirement from the foreign field in the interests of our hard-pressed rivals overseas 'who need trade more than we do.' Perhaps for the purposes of identification we might decorate those noble-hearted altruists with the Grand Order of the Yellow Streak, while the rest of our more brazenly acquisitive tradesmen, with a full recognition of the gravity of the situation, turn to a consideration of the facts, not of the phantoms...
...times as if the poetry were a sort of program music to be explained in the prose terms of psychology such a Paranoia, Megalomania or various other complexes. In these interpretations the poet's relationship to T. S. Eliot is indicated and also in certain later poems a streak of morbid bitterness is traced to the Elizabethans, Donne, Marston and Webster. The abstruse nature of Aiken's poetry can be seen in the conclusion as to his five symphonies written between...
...University of North Carolina and was defeated 7 to 2. The victory for the Tar-heelers stamped them as the leading collegiate tennis team in the East, for in toppling the Crimson they broke a record of 38 consecutive wins and at the same time extended their own streak...