Word: air
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ducks" when Congress sits after the election. This conjunction of times was a happy one for the duckhunters of Barnegat Bay, N. J., and for Representative Harold G. Hoffman. The hunters spoke to Mr. Hoffman, who smiled and spoke to Lieut. Commander H. V. Wiley of the Lakehurst Naval Air Station, who bowed (figuratively) and spoke to his naval aviators, who said nothing but proceeded to obey a new order, viz.: the Navy's aircraft shall not fly over the duck-shooting sectors of Barnegat during the duck-shooting season. To do so scares the ducks, which are scared enough...
Hastily he planted the scrapings in test tubes with germ culture mediums. He sealed the tubes so that no modern air could affect the scrapings. If he did have pre-Cambrian life in his tubes modern air would spoil his research, for the earth's present atmosphere is quite different from that of geological ages...
Blau Gas. Used in the trial flight of the ship is a gas fuel weighing no more than air itself. It can be contained in bags and permits the ship to carry a paying load in place of the many tons of gasoline which used to be an essential weight. Furthermore, as its specific gravity is nearly the same as air, its consumption does not necessitate a constant shifting of ballast as in the case when tanks of liquid fuel are being emptied...
...automobiles in and around dormitories will in the future be a costly procedure for students, it was announced yesterday by Captain M. J. Brennan of the Brattle Square Station. The attention of the local constabulary has been roused by an increase in the number of men practicing open air storage for their cars...
Christy Mathewson Jr., son of the late famed baseball pitcher who had a million friends and only one enemy (tuberculosis), was appointed last week a cadet in the U. S. Army air service. He had been an engineer in the General Electric Co. and had completed a course in commercial aviation at the Schenectady, N. Y., airport...