Word: struts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...open my eyes on such a beautiful blue sky and to hear the happy voices of children already playing in the street below. And as I did turn towards the case ment I saw thereupon, in its winter garb of brownish cream-buff spots, a chattering Starling who did strut back and forth in most serious-like manner. And I did guess his errand. Indeed, little one, was my heart most wont to say, I, too, sense the difference. But all will be well; soon we shall cast those bells to the stones that peace and solitude may reign...
Embryonic instrumentalists, toting everything from bass viols to disappearing rabbits, will file into the Music Building this and tomorrow evening from 7 to 8 o'clock. There they will "strut their stuff" before the heads of the five Instrumental Club organizations in an effort to prove themselves capable of entertaining Boston audiences, famed for their cold attitude toward everything theatrical...
...flanked by pontifical old Henry Berenger, Chairman of the French Senate Foreign Affairs Committee and kinetic Deputy Paul Bastid, the Chamber's Foreign Affairs Chairman. Though French public opinion remained friendly to Italy last week it also remained pacifist and continued to regard the League as a vital strut in the structure of Security-in France a word more magic than Peace...
...Southern Cross did not fall into the sea. Clutching a vacuum bottle, "Bill" Taylor climbed out on a wing, braced himself against a strut, transferred oil from the starboard to the port tanks. When he had braved, the howling wind six times he had a gallon of oil, and the port motor started up again. Seven hours later Kingsford-Smith nursed his crippled ship back to Sydney. Haggard and drawn, he told newsmen: "Bill Taylor is the world's greatest hero. No other man could have done...
...years later Pilot Freeburg was flying eight passengers to Chicago in a trimotored Ford when an outboard propeller broke. Vibration shook a motor loose, lodged it in a wing strut, damaged the landing gear. Pilot Freeburg swung his ship out over the Mississippi River, banked steeply, shook the engine loose, dropped it into the water where its 500 lb. could harm no one. Then, on two motors, he flew 25 mi. to an emergency field, landed his passengers safely. For that he received from President Roosevelt the Post Office Department's first Air Mail Flyer's Medal...