Word: ballooned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nice ex-Caliph Abdul Medjid, though he sent up the engagement trial balloon, took care not to kill off his Jerusalem candidacy last week. His monocle-wearing Secretary Hussein Nakib Bey declared, "My august master. His Majesty the Caliph Abdul Medjid Effendi, constantly corresponds with the Grand Mufti of Palestine...
...wounds of Russian bullets when he was a German cavalryman in the War. (He would not serve against the French because France had been his adopted home.) The dashing Baron came to the U. S. in 1910 as a pilot of the French entry in the Gordon Bennett International Balloon Race. He met Frances Scoville, daughter of a Seneca, Kan. banker, married her three years later in London. She died in 1920 leaving a daughter, Mary, who is now 17, in school at Aiken, S. C. By returning to Germany at the outbreak of the War Baron von Mumm sacrificed...
...undergraduate, who plays the game, or watches it or refuses to watch it, is strangely apart from all this turmoil and controversy. The collegiate balloon of football sentiment has been pricked sometimes during the last decade and most of the hot air has leaked out, from his standpoint if not from that of the crowds. The charge of over emphasizing the sport cannot be laid at his door. At Harvard the days of torchlight parades, read flares, and mass meetings, outlived the mole-skin era in football pants, but not by long...
...band plays "Anchors Aweigh." There is a mighty cheer from the ground crew. a noisy chorus of tooting horns from the automobiles on the hillsides as the Akron, unleashed for the first time, slowly rises as a free balloon, the blue flag of the Secretary of the Navy hanging from her control car, the U. S. ensign flapping at her stern. At about 500 ft. the two stern engines are started and the ship plows slowly into the west wind. Two more engines, then two more, until all eight Maybachs are driving the Akron over Portage Lakes and over...
...Parish formed Missouri-Kansas Pipe Line Co. to run a natural gas line over this distance. In June 1930, it became apparent that Mr. Parish needed more funds. Three months later potent Morgan-affiliated Columbia Gas & Electric Corp., in order to avert a rapid descent of the entire gas balloon, and to avert what might have turned out to be unwelcome competition, bought a half interest in Mr. Parish's company (TIME, Sept. 26). Work went ahead; last week the final sections of pipe were joined, tests begun. Within the fortnight the line is expected to be in actual...