Word: aeronautically
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Among the most noteworthy people who lost their seats: Deputy André Tardieu, ex-Minister of Finance de Lasteyrie, ex-Minister of the Interior Manoury, León Daudet (Royalist leader), General de Castelnau, "Saviour of Nancy," Prince Murat, Sadi Lecointe (aeronaut...
Sadi Lecointe, famed aeronaut, holder of the world's altitude record (TIME, Aug. 13), announced his candidacy for the Chamber of Deputies. He will run on the Radical-Socialist ticket in a Paris constituency...
...hundred thousand people awaiting the arrival of the principals in the Firpo-Willard boxing match were entertained by an aeronaut who released large masses of advertising bills so that they were carried by the wind into the arena. As the current overhead was strong and steady, he found that best results could be obtained by zooming close to the east side of the stands. Those near him booed; those on the west side of the arena applauded his marksmanship and scrambled for the advertisements...
...Harvard Aeronautical Society announces that Mr. Charles J. Glidden, the well-known aeronaut, will deliver an illustrated lecture this evening at 9 o'clock at the Boston 1915 Exposition on "The A. B. C. of Ballooning." All men in the University interested in aeronautics are cordially invited to attend. Admittance to the lecture will be free upon payment of 25 cents as general admission to the Exposition...
...pounds by the proper balancing of horizontal planes. Lielienthal, a German scientist, attacked the problem of stability which had hitherto impeded any practical progress in mechanical aviation. Mr. Merrill then showed stereopticon views of the gliders invented by Lielienthal and explained the two varieties of stability against which the aeronaut has to contend...