Word: ballooned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Akron, Mr. Litchfield enjoys saying, his dislike of a landsman's life "forced him up in the air." He made his first balloon flight in 1911 and as superintendent spurred his company into the business of making balloons. Yet he never lost his love of salt water. He makes an ocean voyage at least once a year, keeps a summer home at Plymouth, Mass. His spacious estate in Akron's smart West Hill section is named "Anchorage." The gate is flanked by two great anchors; the rooms are filled with many a marine trophy. But the weathervane...
Most amazing of the party's new equipment is a sounding balloon developed by Professor Paul Molchanov of Leningrad. Because the chance of recovering such a balloon from the Arctic wastes is slim, the recording device is equipped with a light radio transmitter, which automatically transmits the readings of the instruments to the Graf Zeppelin...
...Austin but Shields beat Perry. When Lott & Van Ryn disposed of Perry & Hughes, the result seemed more than ever a foregone conclusion. The next day Wood, who had beaten him easily at Wimbledon, lost to Perry 6-3, 8-10, 6-3, 6-3. In the last match, balloon-trousered Bunny Austin came up against Shields, speedily defeated his large and impressive opponent whom he had never beaten before, 8-6, 6-3, 7-5. The conclusion reached by spectators was, however, that Austin, Perry & Hughes would surely lose to France in the challenge round this week...
...balloons, filled with natural gas instead of thrice-more-buoyant hydrogen, floated sluggishly into a mushy sky over Akron one afternoon last week. They were to race for two of the three places on the U. S. Team in the James Gordon Bennett International Balloon Race in September.* Heavy rains beat two of the bags to earth within 20 mi. of the start. Storms that night brought down three more. Last to land was the Navy's entry, piloted by Lieuts. T. G. W. ("Tex") Settle and Wilfred Bushnell, at Marilla. N. Y., winning with the unimpressive distance...
...evolved a few rites of its own. One is the quick dip of salute by a plane in flight, another the wing-wag of greeting, another the ring-laying ceremony for a new dirigible (TIME, Nov. 4, 1929). Picturesque is still another -the christening of a new balloon with liquid air. As in the case of the Graf Zeppelin and many smaller craft, it was planned that the Navy's great Akron should be named to the accompaniment of a flask smashed against the nose of her control car, a quick puff of white vapor...