Word: hot-air
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...difficulty seems to center about some hot-air vents. It is natural that such a subject should come up in the course of human events. But its connection, other than the obvious verbal one, with members of the Legislature is obscure...
...SHOW OF-The glorification of the American hot-air merchant which has made Manhattan merry for almost a year...
...speaker then gave a short history of aeronautics. The first ascension was made in 1783 from Versailles, France, in a hot-air balloon. Animals only were sent up, but when it was found to be safe men attempted an ascension. In the same year hydrogen was used as a lifting power. The next year a balloon was first used for scientific purposes, and about the same time one crossed the English channel from England to France. From then on, numberless ascents have been made, and great heights reached...
...dust to accumulate there are no corners in the building; the usual angles have been rounded off. The heating and ventilation system is of the newest and most efficient type, and provides for freeing the air from all dust by taking it through cheesecloth. The building is heated by hot-air, except for the corridors which are heated by steam and hot water radiators...