Word: airship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Airship, nonrigid: An airship whose form is maintained by internal pressure in gas bags...
...Airship, rigid: Form maintained by a rigid structure...
...Airplane" is now a household word. So is "airship." Careful households, capable of distinctions, use words correctly, do not confuse airplanes with airships. Aid is offered by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics Definitions...
...Airship: An aerostat (lighter-than-air craft) with a propelling system...
...which told of the disaster to the expedition of Polar Pilgrim Nobile, these facts at length emerged: Pilgrim Nobile with five companions, one seriously injured, was perilously adrift on an island of blinding ice, which was growing steadily smaller as water channels opened; seven men, cast loose in the airship after the wreck, were lost to the world; three were attempting to reach the mainland on foot...