Word: ballooned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Baldwin seemed to think that by this statement he had assuaged the fears of the House, and Sir Thomas Inskip confided that the Best Brains plan to defend London from air attack partly by means of a "balloon barrage"; hundreds of balloons floating high above the capital secured by steel cables which, it is hoped, will entangle the wings of enemy bombing planes...
...Balloon manufacturers once charged $100 each for sounding balloons not more than 40 inches in diameter. Now investigators of the upper air can get the same balloons for $2 each. Last summer five strings of such balloons, five in each string, were sent up periodically from San Antonio, Tex. to heights of 92,000 ft.(about 17½ miles). When the weakest balloon in the string burst, due to the thinning outside air, the rate of ascent of the other four was checked. When the second bag blew up, the remaining ones hovered practically stationary until a clockwork device released...
Beatrice Lillie swims enchantingly over the sea of heads in an illuminated crescent, advising the gaping spectators to take a balloon some afternoon and go to the moon. Mitzi Mayfair displays her pretty pertness in many guady vehicles, but perhaps to best advantage in the role of a little old lavender lady, who is pleasantly ruffled by Gil Lamb, the man with the ludicrously disjointed skeleton. Bert Lahr is everything comical from the outdoor man who rhapsodizes on the uses of wood, to the juggler of jazz who squeezes all the latest kinder-gartenish pranks in noise into one amazing...
...balloon bearing the legend "It can't happen here," and raised shortly after the fifth touchdown, expressed the sentiments of many amazed Harvard fans who had sat through more than one gloomy rout in recent years...
...data for ordinary "free" upper air at the same height above flat ground. The weather forecaster needs a continuous record, day and night, in all kinds of weather, of conditions in the upper air. At present the only method of obtaining these data is by expensive airplane fights or balloon ascents at intervals of hours or days; these do not give a continuous record and are not practicable in bad weather when records are most needed. They are well on their way towards ironing out the peculiar effects a mountain has on the atmosphere over it and towards producing...