Word: air
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...head of the U-table. Microphones were removed from the table while photographers took pictures. Before radio men could replace the microphones, President Hoover rose, began hurriedly reading his speech held in his left hand. This mishap prevented a broadcast of his words. Suddenly the East Room air began to rumble with sound as distracted radio announcers substituted for the President, read his speech to their audiences. President Hoover's low voice was swallowed up in the vocal confusion...
...week the V4, largest U. S. submarine, "sank" in 86 feet of water, carrying down a crew of 87 officers & men. Thirty-nine minutes later they heard the welcome thump of a diver's 20-lb. shoes on her deck. Above was the rescue vessel Ortolan, from which air lines were attached to the VJs salvage plugs. Fresh air was first pumped into the crew compartments, then into the ballast tanks, from which the water was blown. Twenty-three minutes later the Pacific's blue surface churned with foam as the V-4's stern rode...
...side were large. Admiral Cole issued this war-time communique: "Our Grand Fleet today engaged the enemy at 3.000 yards off Ambrose Light, silenced their battery fire, levelled the defenses and destroyed New York. At 7:12 our bombing squadron dropped 50 bombs on the lower harbor and their air reconnaisance aided materially in governing shell fire. We maneuvered N. N. E. and scored repeated hits." The invading fleet, besides wrecking New York, claimed to have "blinded" Fort Hancock by the destruction of its observation and control towers and then, sweeping aside a mine field and under cover...
...Practical politics" demands that before the British Labor Government recognizes Soviet Russia, Moscow must give an air-tight pledge that any diplomats she may send into Britain will eschew Red propaganda. The British Liberals also insist on some sort of engagement that Soviet Russia will repay British holders of Imperial Russian bonds at least in part. Last week as Mr. Henderson sat down to chat with Comrade Dovgalevsky even professed optimists doubted whether Moscow would yield now on two points which she has so long refused to concede. Still it was a great, significant event that, with small Norway...
...Host. Around him strode a jeweled assemblage. Above him waved a velvet canopy of scarlet and gold which dispersed thick spirals of incense rising from argent censers. Behind him swayed two giant ostrich fans. As the podium was borne through the colonnade, the mass of heads turned, the air quivered with the clangor of bells, the shouts were hoarse and deafening: "Viva il Papa! Viva il Papa...