Word: air
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...where the mercury solidifies after 39° below Zero; up where the air is so thin that one's body feels as puffy as a cloud?sat Capt. Hawthorne C. Gray in the basket of a free balloon. Except for the glass of his goggles he was covered with fur and leather. A machine pumped electrically-warmed oxygen into his lungs. His instruments, he' said, indicated an altitude of 41,000 feet (almost eight miles). This was higher than any man had ever been,* either by free balloon or airplane. The previous record for a free balloon was 35,433 feet...
...Passiten, Germany, it was a nice day for gliding?plenty of gusts of wind, no rain. So Ferdinand Schulz established a new world's record by keeping his glider in the air for 14 hours, 8 minutes...
...glider, as everyone knows, is a small, motorless, extremely light-weight airplane. It usually takes the air by coasting down a hillside to gain sufficient momentum. A more modern method is to hold the glider steady, attach to its nose a shock cord made of rubber bands. Tension is applied to the shock cord and, on a given signal, the glider is flipped suddenly into the air like a pebble from a slingshot. An automatic release hook then drops the shock cord. Once in the air, the pilot of a glider must depend on air currents. Usually he circles around...
...Roanoke, Va. men worked the arms of Walter Boothe, 18-year-old farm boy, up and down, up and down, during every second of more than two weeks. His lungs had collapsed, and they were hand-pumping air into him. The case was similar to that of Albert Frick of Evanston, Ill. (TIME, March 21). But whereas Albert Frick lived thus artificially for 108 hours, Walter Boothe was kept alive 378 hours, until his death last week...
...front of a piano in Vienna. His narrow dexterous fingers sank into the keys of the instrument as if sowing in neat rows the seed of a miraculous music. Like a galaxy of flowers the notes bloomed invisibly in the close greenhouse air of the concert hall; drifted and swirled like petals under the hot chandeliers. They blew upwards in a fountain of chords; they showered down, fell in a bright silent heap. Listeners cheered...