Word: heights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While Chicagoans droned in bed before dawn one morning last week, it was morning 18,000 ft. up in the cold, paling sky where Pilot Roy Colton, 27, circled in an open cockpit biplane. In line of duty he was taking notes on the height and thickness of cloud layers, ice forming conditions, the direction and violence of the wind (80 m.p.h. that morning). His chief work was being done inside a little streamlined box strung on rubber cords between the outer struts of his right wing. In it, human hairs squeezed of oil and moisture were taking...
...College. it will consist of a main building, parallel to Broadway, and a wing, parallel to Quincy Street. The main building will be of brick, three and one-half stories high, topped with a state roof and a belfry. The wing will be of wood and two stories in height only. The station will contain the fire apparatus for this vicinity...
...earth were to receive a positive charge, the positive ions would immediately start to move away from it in all directions. Those near the Equator would be caught in the earth's magnetic field at a height varying from two to four hundred kilometers, but near the poles they would be free to move out until equilibrium had been established...
...would seem reasonable to assume that when the measurements recorded were being made, equilibrium had been established between electrostatic forces and those of gravity at a height of 1,300 miles...
...Northeastern tilt. Hageman will be back at his old position at left guard, paired with Huppuch, while merry and Ferriter will be the starting forwards. Ferriter is being tried at forwards in an effort to put the team on a par with the opposing teams in regard to height; he has improved a great deal during the last week, and should do well. Reisner pulled a charley-horse in the Northeastern tilt and may not be able to see action of that account. Boys will again hold down his position at center ice, and is expected to repeat his usual...