Word: air
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...truth of the matter is that the aeroplane has reached a fair state of perfection. The war has demonstrated that in warfare it is indispensable; and the number of accidents, except through destruction by enemy fire or hostile air craft, has been very small...
...course is intensive, only four months being required to turn out a finished aeroplane operator. The sum expended for the education of each man is about $1200, exclusive of board and lodging. The recruit wins a military brevet after spending twenty or thirty hours in the air, fifteen minutes each morning and fifteen minutes each morning and fifteen in the afternoon, according to weather. There are eight classes or grades from one to another of which the candidate progresses as his ability to manipulate the aircraft develops...
...Zoological Club. Review: "Geotropism in Snails." Mr. E. F. Adolf: "Reactions of Drosophila to Air Currents, Gravity, and Centrifugation." Mr. W. H. Cole; "Light Reactions of Paramecium." Mr. A. C. Walton, in Zoological Laboratory, Room...
...training will come next summer during the encampment period at Tobyhanna. The Aircraft Company is building a peculiar type of observation kites which are used by the thousands in the European war today. These kites are about 80 feet long and have a sack or tail which fills with air and keeps the balloon steady. They rise to a height of 2,000 or 3,000 feet and are connected by a cable to an automobile. The cable has a telephone wire inside so that the operators in the balloon can telephone where they observe the shot to strike...
...degree of speed or accuracy. This fault, however, as well as a slight let-up in speed and all-around playing, has been due in large measure to the warm weather, which has not only made the ice soft and sticky, but has taken much life out of the air in the Arena: Cold, snappy weather would undoubtedly help a great deal in bringing the team to the high form it reached in the Princeton series for the game with the McGill University tomorrow night...