Word: ch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bones of the English, wrote Imperialist Rudyard Kipling, the English flag is stayed. The bones of Americans, too, lie whitening around the North Pole, in Luzon, Haiti, Cuba, Nicaragua, at Peking, Château-Thierry, on the weedy bottoms of four oceans and "the seven seas." Most of these are military bones. But men die in the Foreign Service too. Last week Consul Giles Russell Taggart, technically on leave, died at his post in Belize, British Honduras, from injuries sustained in last fortnight's hurricane (TIME. Sept. 21). Grieved, Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson announced...
...Last week he bought a château near Senlis, France...
...yellow, rubberized cotton gasbag shot upward from Augsburg, Germany before dawn one day last week, dragging after it a 7-ft. aluminum sphere, half black, half silver, from which flew a. Swiss flag. Up, up?and to the south and west?the balloon CH-113 soared until it was a gleaming globule in the rays of the sun not yet risen. Up above the 42,000-ft. mark reached by the late Balloonist Lieut. Hawthorne Gray, up past Lieut. Apollo Soucek's airplane altitude of 43,166 ft.?the highest that man had ever risen?the CH-113 entered...
About 9 p. m. the CH-113 settled upon the glacier above the village of Ober Gurgl in the Austrian Tyrol. There the scientists rested until morning beside their deflated balloon, calmly working on their notes, securing precious instruments. A searching party met them toward midday, led them to safety and the world's news spotlight...
Director Burgess' current interest in extreme cold is the antithesis of his preoccupation with extreme heat at the beginning of his scientific career. That was while he was studying with Henry Louis Le Chátelier in Paris. In 1901 he accomplished four things: Earned his Sc. D.; translated Le Chatelier's High Temperature Measurements with additions; published Recherches sur la constants de Gravitation; and took Suzanne Babut across the Atlantic to his home at Newton. Mass, for a New England marriage...