Word: air
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hersch took charge. His investigators compared "The Klondike" with the Black Hole of Calcutta.-* The scene they reconstructed was as horrid as anything ever written in the dingy annals of U. S. prisons: Stifled, maddened by the heat, the prisoners evidently fought savagely to get water from the "hoppers," air through the tiny ventilating holes. They had stuffed clothing into the "hoppers" to flood the floors, lain down in the water, which got so hot it scalded them. If they touched the metal doors, their naked bodies were scorched. The dead men's feet were puffed, their flesh dehydrated...
...Chinese Revolutionist Sun Yatsen, had recently visited Russia and toured European capitals seeking aid for the Chinese Government. Arriving in Hong Kong, he and his party booked passage with China National Aviation Corp. from Hong Kong to Chungking, China's temporary capital. Japanese spies evidently informed the Japanese Air Force that an easy job of assassination could be carried...
...that the Douglas was shot down "by mistake," so a Japanese Army spokesman at Shanghai was asked by correspondents what transport planes in China could do to keep from being "mistakenly attacked" in future. Said he sagely: "The best thing they can do is not to be in the air!" Later the spokesman gave the part-German Eurasia line on which Dr. Sun flew safely last week priceless advertising by implying that its planes will continue immune. At once China National Aviation Corp. canceled all flights. Its officials said it might resume business with departures at "secret hours" if customers...
...building improvements, students asked for air-conditioning in New Lecture Hall and Widener Library, "at least one long mirror in Matthews", a telephone system, ironing facilities, screens, common rooms, and outdoor seats in the Yards...
Quarterback Oakes took the ball, faded back, and sent a forty-yard pass into the air. Bob Stuart, fastest Harlow back, had only the safety man to boat. The pass went just out of reach of that Nassau safety man, and Stuart clutched it, juggled it for a second, as he nestled it in his arms, and crossed the goal line standing up. Russ Allen was called back from the line to boot the ball squarely between the uprights to tie the game and put Harvard football where it belonged...