Word: air
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...agnosticism-not atheism- is, in addition to the evidence of his lectures, the statement of his wife, who probably knew more about his opinions and beliefs than does even the infallible vaudeville artist who edits the literary section of TIME. Easily the most unsatisfactory point about TIME is the air of shoulder-chip infallibility which the editors of TIME affect, and not even a belief in God justifies this in a reviewer...
...million-and-a-half dollar contract, Glenn L. Martin had also the personal satisfaction of having built a plane with features that Navy experts had said could not be successfully worked out. Seeking the Navy contract, Mr. Martin had designed a plane which, using a Pratt & Whitney Co. air-cooled motor, could carry four men, bombs or a torpedo to the weight of one ton, and yet have a ceiling* of 12,500 feet and make 120 miles an hour with a flying range of 800 miles. Naval experts refused to authorize construction of this plane, believing that no plane...
After the success of his demonstration plane, Mr. Martin said that the performance of its air-cooled motor had made the water-cooled motor "obsolete" for aircraft. Air-cooled (Wright Whirlwind) motors have been used on the Lindbergh, Chamberlin and Byrd transatlantic flights and on the flight to Honolulu...
...pneumatic tub, paddled 200 yards to the shore of the little fishing village of Ver-sur-Mer, where in 1588 one of the prides of the Spanish Armada had been shattered on the rocks. Lieutenant Noville twice returned to the America's wreck to save the first transatlantic air mail, a tiny Betsy Ross flag for President Gaston Doumergue of France, some of Commander Byrd's scientific data...
Australia was being invaded by a fleet of hostile airplanes, said Station 5-CL. The planes had just been sighted, pouncing and swooping in from the North. A few moments later the station told that the invading air navy was dropping poison gas bombs, flame throwers, and showers of poisoned darts. For ten minutes the vision of horror and destruction was conjured up with more and more terrifying realism. Then Station 5-CL blandly announced that there was not one word of truth in its "program," which had merely been put on "because of complaints that the usual features offered...