Word: air
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...songs, shins, and scintillations see Funny Face, Show Boat, Good News, A Connecticut Yankee, Manhattan Mary, Keep Shufflin', Take the Air...
France established three important air routes last week. A passenger line was started between London and Cannes, pearl of the French Riviera. Another was begun between Southampton and Cherbourg, where the English Channel is generally rough. But most important of all, France began air mail service to South America...
...several years subsequent to 1918 the air of Europe was filled with the clatter and clang of builders and the word Reconstruction was on every lip. While the world now hears less about the tremendous task of rearing new structures on Europe's ruins, the process is still under way; and now that the battered homes of refugees have been replaced, those who are directing the rehabilitation find an even more difficult duty in restoring the monuments of culture so uterly devastated during the four years...
...seclusion, sending out, if you will, merely daily bulletins as to his intellectual health: pulse--normal; respiration--noticeable. But he himself has rarely appeared in public due--to the wintry weather, the recent Junior revel--what you will. Today, in fact he has come forth to sniff the air, like a belated ground hog some will say; not indeed to say anything of much pertinence. But the mythical approach of spring with its flowers and tree and other shapsodic subjects, and perhaps the fact that it was brought to his attention that Professor Pray is to lecture...
...position for five years until his appointment to an assistant professorship in the Physics Department in 1910. In 1919 he became a professor of Mechanical Engineering in the Engineering School and has held the chair ever since. During the war Dr. Davis was an aeronautical engineer in the air service and performed many services of much value in that connection...