Word: air
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lampy's old Ibis for fifteen years has graced the back staircase of Notman's Studio, being occasionally brought forth into the light to lend an air of authority and the supernatural to the annual picture of the board...
Tonight before the meeting of the candidates Bump will briefly outline the history and purpose of the organization. The competitors will be expected to devote two afternoons a week to the competition, one afternoon at the air port to become familiar with the mechanics, construction and operation of the plane; the second afternoon to be devoted to clerical work in Cambridge...
...flare for entering realms not his own is a curious and potent thing. The sea, the air, the jungle, the antipodes attract Irresistibly the craving for novelty so characteristic of humanity; and one needs no proof that this urge has been a tremendous factor in the progress in which each succeeding century takes pride. Success has perhaps gone a little to man's head; he takes mad chances and wins and in his cocksureness fails to take precaution in easier matters...
Aviators disappear in mid-ocean, and there is no great surprise, no intense shock, for the air is so new a field that man is still a little surprised at being able to fly. But when a coastal steamer meets doom on its accustomed journey, or when a flood destroys a valley, the old elements laugh at the real impotence of humanity. The claims of chemical rain-makers and cloud-destroyers have so far met with failure as complete as that of learns. Snow, rain, wind can still toy with man, much as in those days; the superman who rules...
Whirring motors in the air kept Emil Glatt and his wife from sleeping, frightened his chickens to death, made his cows stingy, annoyed his horses. So last week he went to court in Nebraska, asking $10,000 damages from the Standard Aircraft Corporation and an injunction to prevent planes from flying low over his farm...