Word: airings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Natural ice, considered much superior to artificial ice for hockey, will be formed in the new rink by the use of vents opening from the walls under the stands. These openings will fill the rink with cold air during the night and once a good body of ice is formed it will be possible to hold this during any protracted thaw. This method of forming ice has been used successfully throughout Canada and in many rinks in this country...
...This practice, thought to be Romish, was not previously canonical.) To the Burial Service, least Christian of the rites, have been added more selections from the New Testament. The Psalms have been corrected for mistranslations, but still do not conform with the Biblical version. A petition for travelers by air has been added to the Litany...
...interest in aviation. In March 1917, while taking a holiday in Florida, he saw the U. S. was at the War's threshold. He bought a Curtiss flying boat, took private instruction, and, when War was declared, received a lieutenant's commission in the naval air forces. Sent overseas, he organized naval air stations in England, France, Italy, won from the Italian government the Brevetto Superiore. After the War came another copper interlude, also the development of Chilean nitrate and Bolivian tin. But he was now engaged in the financial and business side of mining rather than...
...Army pilot who performs the most meritorious flight service of any one year. During recent months Secretary of War James William Good has been scanning the 1928 records of Army men. Last week he decided to award the trophy to Lieut. Harry A. Sutton of the Army Air Corps Reserve, who with "quiet bravery, intelligence, skill and spirit" tested out the spinning characteristics of several dangerous types of planes...
...Captain Bingham's explanations were unnecessary. The air was filled with the roar of drills, and great gaps in the deck testified to the one-time existence of smoke stacks...