Word: ballooned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...March 1 the chemistry class of Verdun High School, near Montreal, released a hydrogen-filled 5? balloon with which they had been experimenting. Last week they received this note from Singapore, Straits Settlements, about 14,000 miles away...
...General Johnson is allergic to quinine. When he wanted sick leave from West Point, he used to take a pinch of quinine, puff up like a balloon...
Shanghai dispatches meanwhile reported better news of China's "invigorated" airforce. Some of the Japanese forces which had reached the north bank of the Yellow River in their advance toward the so-called "Chinese Hindenburg Line" were reported "broken up" by bombs. A captive balloon from which Japanese observers were directing artillery fire was attacked from the air and shot down in flames. This week Japanese operations against the Hindenburg Line continued with slow, progressive success, but Generalissimo Chiang's troops had begun offering improved resistance, due observers thought to "invigorated" bombing...
...York Herald was the most reckless, the most imaginative. Before he was 30 he had sent H. M. Stanley to Africa with blunt orders to find Livingstone. For circulation's sake he sent out scientific expeditions, wangled government support for his journalistic adventures and launched balloon races that started as many as 50 gas bags blowing wildly over the U. S. Nobody knows what wires Bennett pulled in Rutherford Hayes's Administration to persuade the U. S. Navy to back the terrible attempt of the Herald to find the North Pole. But on July 8, 1879. a crude...
...next balloon will probably be much larger," stated Major Stevens...