Word: air
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This commemorates the opening of Chicago's municipal air port. Chicago has provided facilities for the landing of airplanes and the War Department is invited to avail itself of this opportunity...
...method of honoring Christ was devised at Lille, France. Bishop Gaston de Segur inspired his people to a public demonstration of their faith. This first public celebration was only local with relatively few adherents. But even so, the open air parading of the Host was dramatic. The idea spread, was dramatized the next year at Avignon, France. In 1888 the VI Eucharistic Congress met at Paris and centred its pomp and circumstance about the Church of the Sacred Heart,* whence one overlooks all of grey Paris and beyond towards Chartres. Many a great city has seen these congresses ? Antwerp...
...50th mile passed, the eagle reeled crazily in the air, sideslipped, almost dropped into the foam. The cook sought to lure it to alight and rest by spreading meat scraps upon the stern. The eagle soared once more by great effort, distanced the ship for an instant, suddenly appeared to faint in midair, fell thump upon the deck...
...Aviation has offered a prize of $1,000 to the first U. S. boy or girl who successfully pilots a plane across the continent from San Francisco to Boston. The promoters point out that famed War aces had but barely emerged from puberty when daily zooming through riotous air-fusillades...
Architecturally, the proposed memorial church conforms well to the traditional style of Harvard and as a unit the structure is handsome. It has a Harvard air, a colonial look; it has both dignity and beauty; it is of New England. The first reaction toward the proposed memorial is favorable and we fancy that it will have the approval of the great majority of Harvard men. The Boston Herald...