Word: hangar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like a monstrous, whitish grub dragged from its great cocoon, the new German dirigible LZ-129 last week nosed out of its hangar at Friedrichshafen for its first test flight. With Dr. Hugo Eckener in charge of a skeleton crew, the silvery 812-ft. airship, nearly twice the Graf Zeppelin's size, drifted silently out over Lake Constance for three hours, behaved so perfectly that officials boasted further trials were superfluous...
...luscious 19 -year-old aviatrix. To keep an engagement with her, he feigns a heart attack, has a pal (Stuart Erwin) pilot his run. In accordance with best make-believe traditions the pal strikes fog, and, with radio out of commission, bashes through high tension wires, squashes a hangar, dies. After considerable high jinks, Davis braves a storm to test a de-icer invention crashes to his death a slightly tarnished Hero...
Early one morning last week in her native Brooklyn Miss Ingalls' new Wasp-powered Lockheed Orion Auto da Fe (Act of Faith) was trundled out of a hangar for a non-stop flight to California. Standing beside the gleaming black-&-silver monoplane, Miss Ingalls' dander rose when a bystander said something about a possible funeral. ''You be quiet!" she snapped, blue eyes blazing. Tiny (5 ft. 1 in.) Miss Ingalls next became angry over an airport ruling that she had to use an unfamiliar runway. Finally she took off, headed west, reached Burbank...
...self-contained. The first describes an early trans-continental flight to Australia, and it illustrates abundantly the devotion of Day Lewis to a strictly contemporary poetic diction, which takes account of the machine and the effect of machinery upon modern life. There is mention, for example, of 'petrol pump,' 'hangar,' 'filter,' 'magneto,' and other technical expressions. Dr. Johnson's strictures on this kind of poetic diction appear in his discussion of Dryden's "Annus Mirabilis," and though they posses a universal validity, they do not apply, with any exactness, to Day Lewis, for that poet has worked them into...
...Institute has an $1,800 triangular quartz prism for studying the effect on plants of various wavelengths of light. Another equipment item is a huge, mobile frame, shaped like a dirigible hangar carrying powerful lights in the roof. It can be wheeled over a greenhouse to observe plant behavior under continuous 24-hour illumination. It has been learned that barley, cabbage and clover subjected to such treatment keep on growing 24 hours a day but that tomato plants quit, light or no light, and rest five to seven hours...