Word: chuted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fifth Symphony, one night last week in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall, while Conductor Koussevitzky asked the audience to sit down, be quiet. The billows of smoke that were gushing out on the stage and swirling among the imperturbable musicians, were only from a fire in a rubbish chute, which was quickly controlled. When a friend congratulated Koussevitzky not only for averting a panic but for keeping his tempo precise and unhurried through it all, Koussevitzky answered: "Ah! But tempo is tempo and tranquillity is tranquillity...
...With Every Ton" was in Bonfil's best vein. When Denver's physicians announced that most of the jackrabbits had tularemia, and were inedible, when the city sealer declared that every ton of Post coal was short-weight, Mr. Bonfils refused even to be abashed. Did not every paper chute shout "The Denver Post, the People's Big Brother?" Did not the Post Building facade bear in two foot gilt that stirring invitation, "O Justice, when expelled from other habitations, make this thy dwelling place"? Had not Bonfils offered three awards: $25000 for the Denver Post tuberculosis cure...
...Swaddled in heavy clothes with an oxygen mask over his face and a parachute over his stern, Evceyef went up with a comrade from Moscow Airdrome. Mile after mile the plane climbed, into atmosphere -34° F. At 4½ mi. Pilot Evceyef jumped. Instead of opening his 'chute, he plummeted for more than two minutes until he was only 500 ft. above the ground. Then he yanked his ripcord. Said he afterward: ''The jolt was so great that for a moment everything was dark. Then the sun shone green. I made a normal landing with...
...ever made, was finally ready last week in Moscow for a flight to the stratosphere. A morning fog had weighted the turnip-shaped gasbag with a heavy load of moisture; a drop in temperature had caused the hydrogen to contract. Nevertheless the crew of three aeronauts and two 'chute jumpers sealed themselves in the spherical gondola for a takeoff. W^ith a dramatic flourish Air Commander Garankidze waved the ground crew to cast off. The huge bag rose groggily about 10 ft. It wobbled sideways across the airdrome, but not an inch higher would it go. The ground crew...
...jump would have predicted violent death for him. His specialty at fairs and air meets was the delayed opening. From a plane three miles high he would plummet down, trailing flour like a comet's tail, until within 1,000 ft. of the ground, then jerk his 'chute open. His most famed jump occurred a year ago in California when he fell 16,000 ft., jerked his ripcord at 500 ft., landed in an orange tree. An English jumper beat that record for altitude (he dropped 17,250 ft.) but pulled his ripcord...