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Word: earthwards (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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stars and clusters near the central line of the Milky Way. Hence he reasoned that outer space must also contain an extended cloud of particles, gas or dust Measuring star distances by the strength ot the light they send earthward astronomers have failed to allow for the light's absorption by this cloud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Star-Dust Man | 12/26/1932 | See Source »

...from Buffalo one day last week went Harvey Ogden, crack test pilot for Curtiss Airplane & Motor Co. in an experimental observation plane Curtiss had built for the Army. He was to "fly its wings off" if he could. At 15,000 ft. he did. As the ship started boring earthward Pilot Ogden jumped, pulled his parachute ripcord. A flailing wing slashed the 'chute shrouds, Pilot Ogden plummeted to earth. The billowing 'chute drifted lazily in the wind, fluttered to earth an hour later, miles from where the body struck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Test | 5/30/1932 | See Source »

...spinning down through the murk, straight for the rooftops. At 500 ft. a small form separated itself from the plane, a parachute billowed out. The ship crashed noisily on the roof of the old Machinery Building at Frankfort & Duquesne Streets, tumbled off and fell upon two unoccupied automobiles. Floating earthward Pilot Melvin Garlow of Pennsylvania Airlines got his 'chute fouled on a cornice of the building. He cut himself loose, reached the ground with only a sprained ankle. Before accepting aid, Pilot Garlow crawled into his wrecked plane, made sure his mail was safe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Mail Goes Through | 12/7/1931 | See Source »

...plane upward, looped, spun, dove, climbed again in an effort to shake free the bombs. They still swung, knocked, banged. Pilot Breene then sped the plane inland over a wooded swamp, signalled his companion to jump, followed him an instant later. As the two officers drifted safely, slowly earthward beneath their billowing 'chutes, there was a terrific blast overhead, then a rain of metal fragments, bits of what had been an airplane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Show | 4/27/1931 | See Source »

...chief, hero of The Silent Enemy (cinema), completed 5 hr. 20 min. of dual flight instruction at Roosevelt Field, N. Y. Instructors, pilots, students stood with upturned chins one day last fortnight watching Long Lance make his first solo. The chins fell agape as his plane, nose down, roared earthward in a power dive, pulled up and over in a perfectly executed loop. Long Lance climbed back into the sky and the dumfounded watchers heard his motor die to a hiss, saw the ship stall, saw it "fall off" on one wing and into what every novice should dread?...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flights & Flyers: Nov. 10, 1930 | 11/10/1930 | See Source »

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