Word: air
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President informally suggested that the Assistant Secreta- ries-for-Air of the War, Commerce and Navy Departments might in- vestigate transoceanic flying by civilians. Assistant Secretaries Davison, MacCracken and Warner met forthwith, decided that public opinion was a better deterent to foolhardiness than Government regulation...
Gluck auf! auf wiedersehn! thin-faced Germans, expatriates in Moscow, bared their heads in last week's chilly air and cried good wishes to a small, chunky blonde girl, who dressed in grey knickers, sat at the wheel of a smart tourist car. She, Clarenore Stinnes, daughter of the late Hugo Stinnes, Germany's post-War industrial tsar, had broken a transeurasian tour at Moscow...
Skirting the southern end of the island, typhoon and tidal wave broke on the western shore, carrying great boats high into the air and dashing them onto inland rice fields in the vicinity of Nagasaki. The towns of Nakamura and Kojima were wrecked. Jetties, heavy laden barges, motor boats were crushed by the terrific weight of water or blown away by the screeching wind...
...Hall, the only one of our ancient buildings which remained, and the repository of the public library and the philosophical apparatus, was seen to be in flames. As it was in vacation time, when all the students were dispersed, the fire could not be perceived until the whole surrounding air began to be illuminated by it. The fire was conjectured to have started in the room used by the General Court; thence it burst into the Library. The books easily submitted to the progress of the flame, which spread through the whole building, and in a short time this venerable...
...just after the new United States of America had fairly started on its history, stockbrokers met under a buttonwood tree at No. 68 Wall St. When the weather was good they swapped securities and stories and breathed the fresh air from New York Harbor. When it was bad they met in nearby coffee taverns. By 1817 public participation in corporate enterprises had grown to the point where the brokers found it expedient to rent the front room on the second floor of the house of one George F. Vaupell at No. 40 Wall St. It cost $200 but this included...