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Word: air (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Juniors and Seniors interested in joining the Army Air Corps will be interviewed by the United States Examining Board for Air Corps Flying Cadets from 9 to 11 o'clock this morning in Wadsworth House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Examiners Select Students For U.S. Aviation Corps | 5/17/1939 | See Source »

After the usual year's training at Randorph, they will face the stiff army examinations. Then they will have the choice of joining the Air Crops or of entering commercial aviation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Examiners Select Students For U.S. Aviation Corps | 5/17/1939 | See Source »

Gathering on the steps of Widener at 7 o'clock tonight for their first open air performance this season, members of the Glee Club will begin a series of three concerts which will be held there Tuesday nights...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GLEE CLUB HOLDS OPEN AIR CONCERT ON WIDENER STEPS | 5/16/1939 | See Source »

...pressure of several atmospheres, like sand hogs or divers have to be decompressed before going home at night. In one, studies can be made on fixed models of 19-ft. wingspread in winds of more than 250 m.p.h. In the other a model can be flown as in free air, operated by remote control from a tunnel cockpit. Control is achieved through fine wires to electromagnets in the ship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Future View | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...Lead Belly north with him to Manhattan, Folklorist Lomax gave him a first shove up the ladder by presenting him in a concert before radio scouts, theatrical agents and pressmen. Lead Belly prospered, bought himself a new guitar, drawled his rhyme-sprouting improvisations in concert halls and over the air. In 1935 he sent for his best girl, swarthy Martha Promise, a Shreveport, La. laundress, and married her in one of the "shoutin'est" suburban weddings Manhattan's Negro colony had ever seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Lead Belly | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

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