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...English type of lighter-than-air machine. The simple balloon is now used almost entirely for training purposes, to accustom the airmen in the handling of their craft. The type of balloon termed the "kite" is known more familiarly as the observation balloon. On the western front these airships hover over the armies, remaining in a nearly stationary position for long periods of time. They thus are poised for a fixed view of the enemy activities and can communicate movements of troops and other information to the headquarters below them. They also do much of the map-making. The "blimps...
...follow him. For six days, religion will cast off the cloth and wear, so to speak, the common business suit. In this garb it may well make a deep appeal to some who have considered creeds as things apart from themselves, and worship as a detached something which may hover around everyday life but which never has much to do with...
...University; yet he has found room for faults which have been impressed on him. With a freshness and toleration, the antithesis of the sourness and personal tone of the Confessions, the Impressions satisfy us, but still sound a warning against the unnatural and artificial indifference which seems to hover over us like a threatening cloud. They make a just, though silent, plea for the spontaneous...
...kindly figure will always hover in the memory of numberless Harvard...
...humoured, traditional local fun. The latter, in the midst of a generally clumsy drawing is a model of such friendly caricature as ought to be a permanent source of delight both to the subject thereof and to the numberless Harvard men in whose memory his kindly figure will always hover...