Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Levine has fled the unfairness of the newspapers of our country. It has been an added discouragement in the face of already drastic odds against tricky Frenchmen who will not honor a contract and hold to it after signing. Then too he has felt uncomfortable about landing in his own New York and now plans to land in Philadelphia. Is that fair...
...Ales Hrdlicka, anthropologist of the Smithsonian Institution, is of the opinion that man reached North America via the Aleutian Islands, or a onetime land bridge, from eastern Siberia. Last summer Dr. Hrdlicka scoured the Alaskan shore north to Cape Barrow, returning via the Yukon River (TIME...
...sweep the sky in steady circles, their narrow shafts swinging around heaven from anchorages on hilltops. For miles ahead you watch one, catching its brief flash as the beam swings high over your road. Drawing nearer, you see a reflector revolving on a small tower of skeletal steel, a land lighthouse functioning impersonally in solitude. You pass, and see a fainter arm of light waving over the hills ahead, the next eye. They are the night beacons for the U. S. airmail...
...last week, Inventor C. Francis Jenkins of Washington, D. C., offered another scheme, whereby a pilot would need to peer no farther than the dashboard in his cockpit to stay on his course. Inventor Jenkins proposed to equip land lighthouses such as those now winking over the Alleghenies with automatic radio transmitters, each unit costing only $250 and manageable by the present lighthouse attendants. Each station would broadcast on a short wavelength measured to light up a wireless light bulb in the cockpit of a passing plane. Darkness, fog, rain, sleet or snow have virtually no effect on radio waves...
...Professor D. S. Tucker, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said people were not moving from farm to city fast enough. He indicated that the sooner the inefficient farmers leave their land to the efficient the better it would be for the national breadbasket...