Word: ballooned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sorts of other wonderful things happen in the way of breaking speed limits. In addition, one hundred and fifty heavy parts will no longer be needed in the automobile, so that here-after heavy cars will ascend into the Franklin class and the Franklin will turn into a balloon. A great new invention is going to perform all these wonders, a crankless engine, one that delivers the power, not by a heavy and cumbersome crankshaft, but by an oscillating disk. This disk, it is confidently predicted by the inventor, will transfer the power from engine to shaft with absolutely...
...work upon which Mr. Dunbar was engaged when the explosion occurred was not of an experimental nature, but consisted of pumping oxygen in the gaseous form from a balloon in a shed outside the building by means of a compressor with water-lubricated cylinders into a tank. It should be said that this is a standard process constantly carried on in commercial plants. How the oil which caused the explosion got into the tank in this particular case is the problem which we are making every effort to solve in cooperation with the State authorities...
...upstate Democratic leaders called upon him,--at his request. Their unanimous report, so the word goes, was that Mr. Hearst was not popular with the voters, and that with him as candidate they could not promise to deliver even the normal Democratic vote. In fact, the Hearst-for Governor balloon has been so flat since it was inaugurated last February,--in the formation of the "Political Union for Progress" by three of Mr. Hearst's employees, acting under his instructions,--that until Mayor Hylan's recent inflation, it has been almost indistinguishable...
...where does all this lead? At the time President Lowell's statement was made, it was said that it was a balloon sent up to see which way the wind was blowing. Certainly there can be no doubt that the men whose opinions count in such a question will stand behind any change for the better that is made. Most significant is President Hibben's statement that "If we are to do anything to lift that cloud of doubt, it. I feel, can be done only. . . through joint action with our old friends and rivals, Yale and Harvard," while Professor...
There can be no doubt which way the wind is blowing. Now is the time to propose definite changes. Else, President Lowell's balloon is in danger of disappearing in the cerulean blue...