Word: air
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
While the Virginia capes were being defended, bevies of airplanes swooped and wheeled over Langley Field, Va., to demonstrate how they would treat an infantry regiment and wagon train should they have been landed by an invader. The Army Air Corps' high command issued winged invitations to the press and all flew out from Bolling field to see the show...
...blood of a haemophile does not congeal normally upon contact with the air, and thus the slightest wound leads to profuse bleeding, due to the extreme retardation of the process vulgarly called "healing." Now it happens that from the haemophilic House of Hesse-Darmstadt have sprung the last of the Russian Tsarinas, Alexandra, and the present Queen Victoria Eugénie of Spain. To each of these exalted mothers came the bitter pang of recognizing in her first born son a haemophile...
...That air-minded steamship line, the North German Lloyd-it was one of the backers of the flight of the Bremen-announced last week the "first air cruise in history." It will begin in the middle of September at Bremen, cover Europe between Bremen, Berlin, Vienna, Munich, Zurich, Paris, London, allowing passengers stopovers to attend the International Aeronautical Exhibition and the great plane factories of the Continent. North German Lloyd advertised: ". . . Luxurious giant transports of the air ... official receptions all along the route ... all expenses on land, water and air included . . . $1,290 up ... reduced rates for aeronautic students . . . September...
...inertia in the Physics laboratory, and show the boys that we are with them during this, the most crucial part of the season. Get behind the team and the team will never be behind Climb on the wagon and set sail for Cambridge on the morrow, not with an air of superiority or inferiority, but with the traditional spirit of this institution Holy Cross, win or lose, Holy Cross. Holy Cross Tomahawk
...tiny garden situated upon the sunny expanse of the Square of Quiretti. in Rome, workmen erected a fountain whose light waters were to dance into the air and fall in a shower of silver sparks. The fountain was in the form of human figures, incompletely clothed; around the Square of Quiretti are numerous convents and educational institutions. The inmates of these houses disliked the fountain because of the nudity of its statuary; not long after its erection, Pope Pius XI himself sent deputies into the sunny plaza to gaze upon the fountain and determine the degree of its propriety...