Word: airs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Assistant Secretary of War Frederick Trubee Davison, in charge of aeronautics, reported that the Army Air Corps' "most pressing question" was promotion of junior officers. Army and reserve pilots flew 263,381 aircraft hours last year, covered 26,300,000 miles, had 60 men killed...
...assisted by George Barrere, flute; Mariana Lowell, violin; and Genevieve Hughel, violoncello. They will be heard in the following program of seventeenth and eighteenth century music: 1. Golden Sonata, F major Purcell Flute, Violin, Violoncello, and Harpsichord 2. Prelude and Invention, C major Bach Polonaise, G minor Bach Air and Variations, E major Handel Alla Turca Harpsichord Mozart 3. Airs and Dances Flute Gluck 4. Sonata, G major Violoncello Locatelli 5. Concerts Royaux Couperin and Rameau and Harpsi- Flute, Violin, Violoncello, chord...
...blood of a haemophile does not congeal normally upon contact with the air. Thus the slightest wound leads to profuse bleeding, due to retardation of the process called "healing...
...gracious man-about-town. The bedroom doors are all well oiled; they function silently, ceaselessly. What philosophy the play contains issues from the mouth of matronly Alison Skipworth as a Long Island Wife of Bath. Early in the evening she observes: "There is a spirit of unrest in the air, and one feels the breath of Eros blowing in from the garden." Later she delivers a homily on the piquancy of Victorian underwear. She also says: "I often sit and wonder what one could do nowadays to be declasse...
...President Hoover, had her appendix out in Palo Alto, Calif. Crown Prince Christian Frederik of Denmark, visiting London, had an abscess in his throat lanced, was unable to go to Sandringham to see his second cousins George V & Queen Mary. Col. & Mrs, Charles Augustus Lindbergh's Arizona air-explorations were told of in the December World's Work (non- fiction monthly) by one Edward Moffat Weyer Jr. The story: When the Weyer archaeological party was isolated in an Arizona canyon by floods last July, a plane droned to rest on the dangerously rough mesa above them. A figure...