Word: aerially
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York, she met Floyd Hamilton. "His clothes were rough with that aristocratic ruggedness which only a gentleman dare attempt." Also he was an aerial photographer and the son of a Judge...
...Country Club, Chicago, will open its newest course in a manner at once fitting and unique. They propose to present an aeroplane golf match. Two flyers will drop balls from the air as near the hole as possible. Then their team representatives on the greens will hole out the aerial approaches with their putters. The occasion marks the opening of the fourth eighteen at Olympia, making it the largest club in the world...
Colonel J. F. C. Fuller, a British General Staff officer, speaking before an audience of London physicians painted an unpleasant picture of aerial warfare. The purpose of the lecture was to prepare medical men for coping with tens of thousands of gas cases, and to popularize methods of self-protection among the civilian population. Five hundred airplanes could capture London by anaesthetizing the entire population-if the attacking fleet were humane enough to avoid poison gas. When the matter-of-fact British seriously consider such possibilities, there is little doubt that the next phase of aerial warfare might spell...
...Aerial anaesthetic which might put the world to sleep...
Wells, English novelist, who predicted aerial warfare with such accuracy in 1909, bitterly assailed the Air League of Great Britain, which is advocating an increased fleet. According to Wells, an air war between two countries such as France and England virtually means suicide. A few bombing planes can destroy an entire city. No corner of the combatant countries is safe from attack and defense is virtually impossible. To save modern civilization, the avoidance of aerial warfare, not the folly of competitive armament, should be the object of governments. Mr. Wells is a practical man, in spite of many fancies...