Word: airing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...trip an every-day occurrence. We have read that the governor of Rhode Island traveled by this method when he visited France not long ago. What was seldom done in times of peace has been made a daily necessity by war-time needs. Rivalry for the supremacy of the air is a forceful incentive to make machines in greater numbers and each one superior to previous aircraft. Bombing, reconnaissance and duelling have developed the speed, the capacity and range of modern aircraft. For the present, such progress is immediately turned to war uses, but in the future it will become...
Balloons fall into three general classes: the ordinary balloon, the kite balloon and the "blimp," or English type of lighter-than-air machine. The simple balloon is now used almost entirely for training purposes, to accustom the airmen in the handling of their craft. The type of balloon termed the "kite" is known more familiarly as the observation balloon. On the western front these airships hover over the armies, remaining in a nearly stationary position for long periods of time. They thus are poised for a fixed view of the enemy activities and can communicate movements of troops and other...
...maintained at Matthews 31 each day from 5 to 5.30 o'clock. All members of the University can there obtain information about the various branches of the aviation service in both this country and Canada. Magazines on aeronautical subjects are also at hand and a list of books on air problems can be consulted. Any student can join the society at its regular meetings...
...engineering studies, thus placing them in the same category with students in our medical schools. The experience of the other warring countries has demonstrated how large a part engineering, in its wider applications, is now called upon to play in military operations on land, at sea and in the air. We must keep our resources in engineering skill recruited to top notch at all hazards...
There may be some satisfaction--though we doubt it--to know that the progress of cold waves is "due to thee gravity of the hydrostatic pressure due to the weight of the air in the rear of a volume of cold air advancing from the northwest, resulting from the diurnal rotation of the earth on its axis, giving a centrifugal force to the denser cold air greater than that of the neighboring warm air." This mechanical theory of the progress of the wave does not, however, explain exactly why the present (it is impossible at the moment to write "recent...