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Word: air (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lear Black, chairman of the board of the Baltimore Sun, famed air traveler, who has comfortably covered 20,000 miles (Europe, Asia, East Indies) in his own plane, returned to the U. S. on the Carinthia in ample time to register so that he may vote for Nominee Smith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comings & Goings: Sep. 10, 1928 | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

...Journalists insinuate that I never fly because I am unwilling to risk my life. You see that an air voyage has no terrors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Death of Bokanowski | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

Misbehavior is less on calm days than on windy, because when weather is calm the air contains an excess of carbon dioxide, which lessens vitality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Weather & Crime | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

...when she left Manhattan for Cherbourg last week. All the journey across the Atlantic, and back to Manhattan, the young men are to blow up the balloons with gas and watch them float and bob away to the limit of their tethers. While aloft the balloons will indicate upper air currents. When they are pulled back to the America's deck, self-registering thermometers on some will show upper air temperature variation. All the observations will provide facts for theses on hitherto incompletely known ocean aerology, which the three lieutenants will complete this autumn at Massachusetts Institute of Technology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Aerology | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

YOUNG HANDSOME FATHER OF SIX CHILDREN LEAVES BY AIR-RAIL...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Air-Rail | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

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