Word: air
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only way the United States of America can defeat the hatred of European nations toward us is to maintain the strongest fleet, army and air force in the world...
...political grave of the Ohio gang, the little flowers of indictment still grow every spring, scenting the air with the perfume of scandal and the breath of alleged corruption (TIME, May 17). Already the unsuspecting blossoms of Messrs. Doheny and Fall, Daugherty and Miller have poked their heads above the ground into the dew of publicity. Wary investigators plucked them, hurried them into stuffy courtrooms...
...long fishpole caused his eyes to sparkle momentarily; occasionally an intrepid fly was rewarded with an energetic slap. . . . Occasionallv, too, he shot a glance of stern disapproval across the wharf, where the Courtney children-Martha, four, and Jane, six-romped carelessly. Suddenly, simultaneous shrieks rent the air, mingling with the splash of water. Two struggling figures swept beneath the projecting fishpole. The boy jumped. Seizing one girl by the hair, setting his teeth into the dress of the other, he floated both until help came in the form of a rowboat. When the distracted Courtneys had assured themselves of their...
...simply a "happenstance." The earth's tilt, the sun's position over earth's equator, have no meteorological implications other than the general one that toward the end of the summer the continents begin to cool off while the sea stays warm, thus altering some air currents. Storms in September are erroneously called "equinoctial gales" if the term is taken to designate anything but an ordinary weather disturbance named for convenience, as who should say "a Christmas blizzard." Records taken over 50 years actually show fewer storms between Sept. 21 and 25 than during the five...
...Diesel motors over gasoline motors in automobiles would be their simplicity of structure and absence of vibration. Instead of a carburetor and valves, a Diesel* motor has a small spray to inject fuel into the cylinder at the moment when the piston has risen and greatly compressed the air in the chamber. Compression makes the air so hot that ignition is automatic and the explosion gradual and more powerful than the complex explosion obtained with a spark plug. No generator or distributor is needed by a Diesel; no pressure oiling system. The Diesel's fuel is crude oil-almost...