Word: ballooned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...main purpose of the trip this summer is to investigate some of the properties of cosmic rays, such as their direction, penetrability, and intensity, which we have not fully determined in our previous two trips. The balloon will ascend to about ten miles. It undoubtedly could go higher, but we can obtain all the results from this height that we need...
...decades ago, no first-rate fair in the U. S. failed to feature a balloon ascension. Last week there was talk that Chicago's World's Fair might boast the greatest balloon ascension ever witnessed in the U. S. Shaggy-haired Professor Auguste Piccard visited the fair grounds with his twin Brother Jean, said he might ascend from Soldier Field to the stratosphere, if U. S. balloon manufacturers would back...
Professor Auguste Piccard of the University of Brussels will peak on "Our Free Balloon in the Stratosphere" at 8 o'clock tomorrow evening in the Rice Institute of Geographical Exploration, Theodore Lyman '97, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, emeritus, announced last night...
Thus, by their learned computations, eminent French statesmen turned the estimated deficit for 1933 into something like a toy balloon alternately blown up and permitted to deflate. During this process two French Cabinets-those of Edouard Herriot and Joseph Paul Boncour-re- soundingly fell (TIME, Dec. 26 & Feb. 6). Last week blustering, dynamic Premier Edouard Daiadier won vote after vote on the budget in the Chamber and Senate. His estimates reduced the expected deficit to a mere 5,566,000,000 francs...
Golfers, perpetually exasperated at themselves, are never satisfied with their equipment. Four years ago they all took up steel shafts. Three years ago they squabbled about sand-wedges. Two years ago they were troubled by the balloon ball. Three weeks ago a new subject for contention arose when Gene Sarazen, British and U. S. Open champion, ill of influenza in a Santa Monica hospital, took it upon himself to suggest that the cups on putting greens be enlarged from 4¼ in. to 8 in. Reason: "A crack player and one just average are playing. The average player puts...