#landed

In the last 17 years of his working life, my father was finally rewarded with having landed a great job as first, a maintenance engineer, and then a senior locksmith with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. ↗

— Tony Visconti

#engineer #father #federal #federal reserve #finally

In our gliding experiments we had had a number of experiences in which we had landed upon one wing, but the crushing of the wing had absorbed the shock, so that we were not uneasy about the motor in case of a landing of that kind. ↗

— Orville Wright

#case #crushing #experiences #experiments #gliding

Moreover, in Russia there was an enormous amount of landed property to be divided, large estates, crown lands, government land, and the estates held by the monasteries. ↗

— Herman Gorter

#crown #divided #enormous #estates #government

At several such places we landed, but always found the ascent to the interior so covered with large loose rocks that it would have been impossible to have disembarked stores or stock on any. ↗

— George Grey

#any #ascent #been #covered #found

The deadlines are much, much longer with books. When I was a reporter, a lot of times I'd come in at 8:30 a.m., get an assignment right away, interview somebody, turn the story in by 9:30, and have the finished story in the paper that landed on my desk by noon. ↗

— Margaret Haddix

#away #books #come #deadlines #desk

I maintain that the existing corn laws are bad, because they have given a monopoly of food to the landed interest over every other class and over every other interest in the kingdom. ↗

— Joseph Hume

#because #class #corn #every #existing

Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed. ↗

— Neil Armstrong

#eagle #here #houston #landed #tranquillity

As soon as I landed at Malta I found that though I could go to Tunis I could not go away without being quarantined for ten days and if I remained in Malta I must stay a week. ↗

— Richard H. Davis

#being #could #days #found #go

Those fields of daisies we landed on, and dusty fields and desert stretches. Memories of many skies and earths beneath us - many days, many nights of stars. ↗

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#days #desert #dusty #fields #landed

I told them how excited I would be to go into space and how thrilled I was when Alan Shepard made his historic flight, and when John Kennedy announced on the news that the men had landed safely on the moon, and how jealous I was of those men. ↗

— Christa McAuliffe

#announced #excited #flight #go #had