Word: balloon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...soldiery of Italy was followed by a similar movement in Germany, and hasty prognosticators saw the Ku Klux Klan as a symbol of an American stand against foreigners and foreign doctrines. It has been impossible to discover the person who applied the tack to the over-inflated balloon of bourgeois self-righteousness, but it evidently has been applied: perhaps the sturdy citizen himself was not among the last to grasp the ridiculous exaggeration of his pose as the single-minded defeader of national ideals...
...Navajo rug on the graveled floor. A square white column, carefully off-center, held up the roof. The rear wall consisted of a sheet of plate glass end-on to the room, an "S"-shaped strip of celluloid, all against a background of awning stripes. A little red balloon hung in front. A rug-covered box served as divan. Two cups and saucers lay on a stool-a home-like touch...
...competition for model airplanes conducted by the French Air Ministry, a 16-year-old boy, Gaston Beaulieux, did well. His wonderful model, with a few strands of twisted rubber driving a tiny propeller, was released from a captive balloon at a height of over 600 feet, went up in regular circles to a height of 1,500 feet and disappeared from view in the direction of Versailles. A search was conducted for the tiny airplane...
...pioneer stage of the motorcar business is past. Now the changes in models are not so much genuine mechanical improvements as "selling points." This Spring the balloon tire and the four-wheel brake were novelties; now they are practically standard equipment. With the present new crop of "latest models," the chief feature consists in selling eight-cylinder cars in the moderate price field, and selling sixes at or under the existing prices for fours. The last Buick is such a six-cylinder model. What tomorrow's "new feature" will be, no one knows, least of all the manufacturers themselves...
Piloting the Belgica, Lieut. Ernest de Muyter of the Belgian Army, won the James Gordon Bennett balloon trophy for the third time. The cup has now become his permanent property. Leaving Brussels, de Muyter landed at St. Albans Head on the English Chan nel after more than 48 hours in the air ; he had covered the comparatively short distance of 475 miles. Much longer flights have been accomplished in previous races, with over 1,100 miles as the world's record balloon flight. This - the 13th contest - was marked by none of the terrible accidents of last year, when...