Word: aerially
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...until this Leftist offensive had burned itself out did the attack on Santander really get under way with an aerial and artillery bombardment as heavy as anything Bilbao was ever submitted...
...stayed through the night, nonchalantly bibbing. Japanese aircraft did not go up until dawn but when they did General Kazuki systematically destroyed or set afire the principal structures in the Chinese quarters of Tientsin. By 10:20 a. m. what Associated Press called "the most destructive and longest aerial bombardment ever undertaken by Japanese Army"* fliers had ringed Tientsin's foreign concessions with dense smoke clouds belching up from the Chinese quarters. Cabled New York Times veteran Hallett Abend: "The Tientsin crisis is definitely over!" Nonetheless it had provided the unique spectacle of a commander forced to bomb...
Queried by correspondents for details of how Spain's Leftists conduct aerial war, Pilot Dahl reminisced...
...were still not on top of the bad weather. Nor could Tommy reach the top, thus exploding the "overweather" theory for that level at any rate. Flying in sleet without sighting land for seven hours, he finally reached the coast, began to "mush" down through for a landing. His aerial was iced and he could not get a fix on the beam at Newark where the ceiling was very low and where TWA officials were biting their nails. So he nonchalantly flew 200 miles out to sea in his land plane to make a second approach. Back over Newark...
Earle Elmer Meadows, 24, and William Healy Sefton, 22, pole-vaulted separately before they entered U.S.C. in 1933. Beginning at 10, Earle practiced with an old rug cane and clothesline strung up in his Little Rock front yard. Anxious to spur his son's aerial career, Father Meadows, a cloth manufacturer, offered him a nickel for every inch above 5 ft. that he could make. In 1932 when he was a high-school senior at Fort Worth, Earle cleared 13 ft. to establish a Texas scholastic record, 6½ in. less than the national interscholastic record Bill Sefton...