Word: aerially
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Life. The Communist regime has now attained a complete stability, and in consequence an orderly routine of life is vouchsafed to all classes. Such cultural diversions as the theatre, the opera and the ballet are taking their normal course. Transportation is obtainable by all the usual means: terrestrial, aqueous, aerial. The shops are open and well stocked, but the price of manufactured goods is still exorbitant...
Dartmouth had a hard fight on its hands to subdue a game team from Virginia Polytechnic Institute by 21 to 0. The southerners had a tight defense against forward passes, and the Big Green team found its aerial attack powerless. Straight drives through the line were used almost entirely in the Hanoverian offense, and a strong Virginia forward wall held this offense scoreless during the first and third periods...
There is more to a photographic competition than meets the casual eye. One sees a harassed looking student dashing about with a camera, trying to worm his way into such hallowed places as the football secret practice field; climbing trees to get aerial views of this and that; seeking to round up Professor so and so, visiting lectures from such-and-such, and catch him in an informal pose. And comes the inevitable question...
Smoke Photography. Aerial photographers at McCook Field, Ohio, gave full credit to the Eastman Kodak Co. for new "K-panchromatic" plates by which flying observers can photograph the earth through smoke screens and light fog. The plates are treated with a secret cyanide, "krypto-cyanide," sensitive to infra-red rays which, though invisible to the eye, penetrate smoke and water vapor to record an image in the camera. The significance: protection for wartime mapmakers...
...hear the winding of aerial horns Thicken the air I gasp to breathe . . . I clinch twin burdens to my fading cinder breast...