Word: air
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Island Sound suddenly delivered out of its flat bosom a towering column of water that raced ashore with terrific impact, spinning up trees by their roots, cottages by their foundations, dragging wreckage into the Sound on its backwash. (Cyclones and waterspouts [which are cyclones over water] are caused by air rushing to fill an area of low pressure, being diverted into an inward spiral motion by the spin of the earth. The spiral is always counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere, clockwise in the southern. The "path" of a cyclone is determined by the larger air currents in which the spiral...
...Dutch coast. Some 80 miles past the Belgian border . . . Plud! ... a wild duck, hypnotized with fright, flew straight into a propeller of the roaring frame crossing its path. The liner had to descend. A message flashed to London brought a new propeller in a few hours by air. The passengers re-embarked and were treated to the first night flight ever made by an Imperial Airways ship, landing at their destination none the worse for the accident. Soon Imperial Airways will have regular night schedules, planned these many months...
...long since a heavier-than-air craft flew over the Atlantic...
...used up, one motor will be cut out, then another, leaving two reserve motors for the end of the flight. The average speed will be 110 m.p.h.; estimated flying time, New York-to-Paris, 35 hrs. All the past week, U. S. weather men have been mapping Atlantic air-currents for Captain Fonck's benefit. Trans-Atlantic steamers have flashed weather reports. Steamships are supplied with cards bearing silhouettes of the S-35 to aid in recognition, and instructions for reporting, having sighted her. The S-35 carries an elaborate radio outfit and has been assigned special wavelengths...
...that he has now become a legionaire-by accident. Even during the solemn ceremony that involved the bit of ribbon he could not appear to be taking himself seriously. A short, genial little man, with a big mouth and eyes that seem always to be listening, he had the air of an elegant Hebrew comedian about to do a vaudeville turn. It was thus that he appeared before the famed David Warfield on the day that he entered the show business. Mr. Loew was at that time a furrier. He had done well at the trade of transforming the skins...