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In two minutes the body of Tilghman's former comrade, who had been killed by Blue Throat in a gambling brawl the previous night, was carried into the town's funeral parlor to be prepared for decent burial.
Running across the deck, which was empty now that the livestock had been killed and eaten, they sniffed the spice-laden breezes that came from the shore, each pointing out new and exciting wonders to the other.
Two of our men were killed, a third was wounded.
As the cloth dried, more of the mixture was applied, and after twenty-four hours the felon was supposed to be `` killed ''.
There is no accounting of his movements in this long gap of time which covers the early hours when Mrs. Borden was killed.
He found them near the carcass of a zebra that had been killed the night before, and he circled once, nose to the ground, hair shooting up along his back, as it did when he was after lion or bear, and then he lifted his head and bayed, and the pack joined in, all heads high, and Jones knew it was a hot trail.
( In the graveyard at Nairobi he had been shown the graves of thirty-four big game hunters killed hunting the animals he was attempting to lasso.
`` The Bartlett girl was killed by Mr. Dronk's son.
When Alec finished reading he was sure that either Forbes or Stacy had killed Diana Beauclerk.
There was still a little, not much, left in the first bottle and we passed it around once and killed it, and Charlie opened his.
That way we'll never know which of us really killed him and which was just the accomplice.
Petitions asking for a jail term for Norristown attorney Julian W. Barnard will be presented to the Montgomery County Court Friday, it was disclosed Tuesday by Horace A. Davenport, counsel for the widow of the man killed last Nov. 1 by Barnard's hit-run car.
Mrs. Hengesbach was killed on Aug. 31, 1958.
A young man was killed and two others injured at midnight Friday when the car they were riding slid into a utility pole on Lake Avenue near Waddell Street, NE, police said.
Another man tried to swim across the river from the East to the West, but was shot and killed.
If 500 Japanese were ordered to hold a position, we had to kill 495 before it was ours -- and then the last five killed themselves ''.
Race-drivers, on the other hand, are quite often killed on the circuit, and since it was obviously Mr. Remarque's intention to establish automobile racing as life in microcosm, one might reasonably have expected him to demonstrate precise knowledge not only of techniques but of mores and attitudes.
I had killed snakes before, when I was younger, but there had been no animal like this one, and I knew it was unthinkable that an animal such as that should die.
`` Suppose it was not us that killed these aliens.
Lincoln's paternal grandfather and namesake, Abraham, had moved his family from Virginia to Jefferson County, Kentucky, where he was ambushed and killed in an Indian raid in 1786, with his children, including Lincoln's father Thomas, looking on.
* in Labadea, east of Delphi, Trophonius, another son of Apollo, killed his brother and fled to the cave where he was also afterwards consulted as an oracle
Apollo killed Python but had to be punished for it, since Python was a child of Gaia.

was and aviation
) Wishing to show that aviation was dependable and here to stay, Bob Fogg always made a point of taking off each morning on the dot of seven, disregarding rain, snow and sleet in true postal tradition.
Alfred William Lawson ( March 24, 1869 – November 29, 1954 ) was a professional baseball player, manager and league promoter from 1887 through 1916 and went on to play a pioneering role in the US aircraft industry, publishing two early aviation trade journals.
He had wanted to be a commercial pilot for the Saudi national airline but was rejected when he applied to the civil aviation school in Jeddah in 1999.
The term avionics was coined by journalist Philip J. Klass as a portmanteau of aviation electronics.
The " Common Strategy " approach was not designed to handle suicide hijackings, and the hijackers were able to exploit a weakness in the civil aviation security system.
Great progress was made in the field of aviation during the 1920s and 1930s, such as Charles Lindbergh's solo transatlantic flight in 1927, and Charles Kingsford Smith's transpacific flight the following year.
After World War II, especially in North America, there was a boom in general aviation, both private and commercial, as thousands of pilots were released from military service and many inexpensive war-surplus transport and training aircraft became available.
The Aeronautic Ministry was created on January 20, 1941, and absorbed the former Army and Navy aviation under its command.
In 1949 Marker published his first novel, Le Coeur net ( The Forthright Spirit ), which was about aviation.
Like many in the film business, Danny was an aviation enthusiast.
The operational show chairman was well-known aviation figure Lynn Garrison.
Their radar did not work, aviation was virtually non-existent and communications were not fully operational.
Wintgens ' aircraft, one of the five Fokker M. 5K / MG production prototype examples of the Eindecker, was armed with a synchronized, air-cooled aviation version of the Parabellum MG14 machine gun.
In the United Kingdom, at the behest of Neville Chamberlain, ( more famous for his ' peace in our time ' speech ) the entire British aviation industry was retooled, allowing it to change quickly from fabric covered metal framed biplanes to cantilever stressed skin monoplanes in time for the war with Germany.
* LaGuardia Airport, the smallest of New York's three major currently operating airports, bears his name ; the airport was voted the " greatest airport in the world " by the worldwide aviation community in 1960.
The wind tunnel was used to investigate the characteristics of the airfoil sections used by the early pioneers of aviation such as the Wright Brothers, Gabriel Voisin and Louis Blériot.
Shooting began in late February 1930, about the same time that Howard Hughes was finally finishing his epic World War I aviation epic Hell's Angel's after being in production since September 1927.
While Howland Island was colonized in 1935 as a future aviation facility and is known in popular culture mostly because of its association with the last flight of Earhart and Noonan, no aircraft is known to have ever landed there, although anchorages nearby could be used by floatplanes and flying boats during World War II.
His sister, Mary Ellen Edgerton, was the wife of L. Welch Pogue ( 1899 – 2003 ) a pioneering aviation attorney and Chairman of the old Civil Aeronautics Board.
He was also interested in aerial photography and aviation, which led him to abstractions inspired by or derived from aerial landscapes.
Despite this he was appointed to and helped change the Luftwaffes tactical direction towards producing fast medium bombers that were to destroy enemy air power in the battle zone rather than through industrial bombing of its aviation production.
Arguably, one of the greatest failures was the neglect of naval aviation in the western theatre, 1939 – 1941.
No effort was made to address the low production output of the German aviation industry to support the expected increased attrition rates.
In 1945, with the end of the war, the airport was opened to the civil aviation.
The aviation department within Rogers was created by Amédée Maingard on his return from the Second World War.

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