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Word: aires (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Between the player and his instrument there are only ether-waves which are directed to the production of sound by the movement of the musician's hands in the air. Thereminvox, the ether-wave music instrument, and its influence upon musical development are of general interest internationally to the worlds of art and science...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JAZZ CHARACTERISTIC OF AMERICA-THEREMIN | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

Charles Augustus Lindbergh was a child of six whose father had just gone to Congress from Minnesota. The Wright Brothers were making sensational flights, staying in the air as long as 1 hr., 31 min., 25 4/5 sec. But not until the next year was Louis Blériot to astound the world by flying across the English Channel. If young Lindbergh had a hero the year Taft campaigned it was doubtless President Roosevelt, with whose son, Quentin, he used to play in the White House grounds. Legend says that "Cheese" Lindbergh was one of the boyish gang that inspired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Supreme | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

Wilbur at 8.10--"Take the Air." Will Mahoney as the good cigar in a rather plain wrapper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOARDS AND BILLBOARDS | 10/3/1928 | See Source »

Double chinned M. Laurent Eynac was pleased to be created France's first Minister of Air a fortnight ago. But last week, he was less pleased...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Eynac Difficulties | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

...said Dr. Eckener, "remain in the air for hours in perfect safety, even if every motor should give out, which is most unlikely. We can get at every motor to repair it. We have even taken apart an entire motor and reassembled it while in flight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Lazy Giants | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

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