Word: heights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...true that "super-sixes" among men go through life at a disadvantage on account of their height; but yesterday, at President Eliot's lecture, many of those present would have been glad to add a cubit to their stature, in order to see over the crowd that packed Peabody Hall. "Joy in Work," with Dr. Eliot as the speaker, is a fertile topic, and those who wedged their way in, as well as those who crowded the stairway outside, were rewarded for their attention...
...helicopter." This is a fragment of the congratulatory message sent by Thomas A. Edison offering assistance in further experiments to Dr. Bothezaat, who broke the world's helicopter record at McCook's Field, Dayton, Ohio, by remaining in the air two minutes and 45 seconds at a height of 15 feet...
...second attempt", continued Mr. Mallory, 'that it was decided to use oxygen". The oxygen tanks which weighed 32 pounds, proved unsuccessful because of their weight. It was on this trip that the record height of 27,235 feet was reached...
...lecture Mr. Mallory will tell the complete story of the expedition that reached the unprecedented altitude of 27,235 feet above sea level, a height only 1700 feet below the summit. During the climb vast snow plains and glaciers were crossed through blizzards of snow and hail. One avalanche that swept down the mountainside carried several of the Hindu helpers into deep crevasse to instantaneous death...
...explanation is intelligible enough to anyone acquainted with the laws of electricity, but to the layman the whole affair remains "miraculous": The aeroplane carried a cargo of about eighty pounds of sand grains which were charged with static electricity by means of a wind driven generator. At a height of 500 feet above the tops of the cloud, these sand particles were scattered abroad by the propeller, so that they gradually settled upon the cloud-mass below. The interaction of opposite electric charges between sand and moisture particles caused a condensation, and the clouds changed to rain, leaving a clear...