Word: air
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Peary wrote of him: "Harrigan acquired this sobriquet on account of his ear for music. The crew used to be fond of singing that energetic Irish air which was popular for some years along Broadway and which concludes ungrammatically with the words 'Harrigan-that...
...Edison and many another man of destiny, one Thomas Eugene Mitten began his career in the U. S. as a telegraph operator. He had come from that peaceful county of Sussex, England, and he is now the operator of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co. and various motorbus, taxicab, and air lines valued at an odd half billion dollars...
...Fogg Museum, water-colors by Frank W. Benson, etcher and painter are now on exhibition and will be shown for several weeks. The paintings, most of which date from 1922 or 1923, are of out-of-door scenes, and are delightful in their feeling for light and air, and in their fresh, clear coloring. The water-colors are lent by Edward C. Storrow...
...mariners that frequent the Gulf of Mexico region dread these annual hurricanes. Their source is usually in the Caribbean, where an initial whirling motion is caused by the expansion of moist air over tropical waters. They then generally pursue a northern course gradually increasing in intensity so long as they remain over water. Curiously, due to lower barometric pressure on the southernmost side, the southern semicircle of these hurricanes is comparatively harmless. Mariners refer to the northern half as "the dangerous semi-circle," and the southern half as the "navigable semi-circle." They can usually rely upon "riding...
...Havana, one Angel Arango pleaded and pleaded with air pilots to take him aloft. He wanted to step off the wing of a plane and drop into the Gulf of Mexico from an altitude sufficient to test a combination parachute and buoyant belt he had invented. Pilots old and pilots young refused to budge. To them the device did not look practical. Last week, however, Senor Arango found his man, clambered joyfully into a cockpit, waved goodbye to watching thousands, crept out on the plane's wing tip at 3,000 feet, stepped backwards into empty air. The parachute...