Word: air
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...right side of Venus, he must start before March 6, and although the time may be profitably passed charging admission to his hangar, the Vernean scientist is disturbed by the obstinate weather. When pundits inform Condit that the friction of the air will melt the rocket and likewise the already ardent professor within, he smiles knowingly. When visitors asked him how he would return, it is reported that he answered, "Why cross bridges?" speaking, one presumes, metaphorically. The inhabitants of Miami, however, although they like Mr. Condit, fear he will come back to earth too speedily...
...cool crisp autumn air...
...tragedy in the appearance of Harvard indifference in a happy disinterest in one's follow student. But it would be nearer farce than tragedy if more money should be wasted in the fulfillment of an imaginary need. And the need for a University Register has a certain air of reality...
Alfred Lee Loomis, Manhattan banker and physicist, and Frank E. Lutz, curator of insects at the American Museum of Natural History, played scientific tricks with a cricket. They played the black bug in a vacuum and in a container of compressed air; for ten minutes they whirled him in a machine 1,200 times a minute. The insect did not die because air pockets j in his hard coat apparently protected him. Beside these insect researches, Mr. Loomis, vice president of Bonbright & Co., experiments in his private laboratory at Tuxedo Park, N. Y., on the effect of "super-sounds...
...trick was turned. Nosing out to sea last week the Los An-geles met the Saratoga off the Virginia Capes. Both headed into the light, gusty wind. The dirigible dipped gently, close to the carrier; then bucked like a frightened horse. A vagrant gust tossed it 200 feet in air. Again it angled downward, its sensitive nose smelling the sea ship tentatively. Ropes were dropped, sailors dragged the huge sky ship closer, held it fast. A hose was hoisted aboard the Los Angeles. Refuelling was simulated; supplies, passengers exchanged...