Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When old Johns Hopkins men revisit their school, or when callers come from foreign lands, they enter the great limestone Italian Renaissance library through its bronze doors, climb a flight of stairs, see a bronze bust of Dr. Welch on the landing, climb on to the second floor and in the Great Hall see John Singer Sargent's portrait of the Four Founders-a huge canvas glowing with rich reds, symbolical of a great nation's medical cornerstone...
...Ogre has yet another weapon. The terrific force of his ally, the wind, against a plane in flight is sufficient to hold ice particles against the rubber by atmospheric pressure, although there is no actual adhesion. The ice will not remove itself. Ingeniously, the experimenters ran an air tube through the overshoe beneath the oil-holding layer. A flip of a small pump in the pilot's cockpit slightly inflates the tube, budging the ice, which is immediately blown away as the vacuum breaks...
...York-Bermuda. "Any time there is a good ship, a good pilot and 48 hours notice, I will go." Such was the standing boast of Capt. Lewis A. Yancey, 17 years a seafarer, able navigator, last year co-hero with Pilot Roger Q. Williams on his trans-Atlantic flight to Rome (TIME, July 22). The place Capt. Yancey stood ready to fly to was one whither no man had ever flown from the U. S.?a 20 sq. mi. pinprick n the Atlantic, 580 mi. offshore?Bermuda. One little slip in navigating and a plane from shore would shoot...
...brought back from Cape North, Siberia, where he crashed in a blizzard flying to aid an ice-locked furship (TIME, Jan. 6 et. seq.). Two days late for the burial, an airplane from the stormy East brought Sir George Hubert Wilkins, Eielson's comrade on many a frigid flight, to lay a wreath, gaze at the white grave, fly away...
...Washington, Dr. Eckener received the medal of the National Geographic Society, "for his work in furthering the progress of airships, and to commemorate the first around-the-world flight of the Graf Zeppelin." In 42 years, only ten men before Eckener were awarded this medal: Peary, Amundsen, Shackleton, Bartlett, Goethals, Stefansson, Gilbert, Bennett, Lindbergh, Byrd...