Word: air
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...returned to England from my 28,000-mile round trip flight to Australia I remarked, 'Aviation will make Australia [TIME, Oct. 11]. . . .In Australia it is possible to fly 365 days a year.' Now comes the Rev. Mr. C. Daniels-once a pilot in the Royal Air Force -whose parish in New South Wales is as extensive as all England, with a request that the Anglican Church Missionary Society buy him a plane to expedite his parish visits. His motor car too frequently stalls in mud. His camel is painfully slow. The Society will...
...reported having recovered from manufactured gas thousands of tons of a sulphur compound valuable to agriculture as an insecticide and fertilizer. There is much sulphur in gas coke, the smelly compounds of which are removed from gas made for household burning. Hitherto these compounds have been wasted upon the air of the gashouse district...
...Manhattan, the clang of fire engines split the night air. Fire-companies raced madly through deserted streets, turned corners recklessly, arrived; found one Mrs. Bessie Mann, 35, waiting, patient. Said she, ingenuous, to Magistrate Gordon, "I was on my way home alone. It was dark and I was afraid. So I thought I would ring for a policeman...
...researchers have already studied the preventive effect of oxygen on alcoholic poisoning. Further, it has long been known that fresh air helps to overcome intoxication, permits prolonged, although intermittent, drinking...
...this world. In philosophy their knowledge of our flesh-faults is a heavy balance wheel to the tangents of our loose idealism. As critics of society, they tend to hush the hallelujah chorus, introducing sardonic groans for those imperfections of mankind at which the Chautauqua-shouters, sniffing the electric air of a millennium, flap their coattails. The true earnest of a physician's worth outside his consulting room* is therefore the degree to which he refrains from hollow croaking; the degree to which he is conscious and confident of sound normality among the masses from which his clientele...