Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...results have been attained here despite the fact that the story runs for over two reels before the director seems aware of it. Whenever he fancies the audience is tired of palatial drawing rooms, he shoots them a few snow scenes. A young spendthrift (Conrad Nagel) is forced to land in his airplane in Canada. He falls in love with the inevitable backwoods beauty (Alma Rubens). When she is ashamed to be seen in the best circles with him because of her underbreeding, the wily villain sends the innocent girl to Paris for culture. This situation can be straightened...
...Major Gen. George O. Squier, former chief Signal Officer, U.S. Army, reporting the results of recent experiments in ocean cable work, stated that a universal automatic telegraph transmitter, applicable to radio, land lines and submarine cables, has been tested on artificial cables in the laboratory. The electron vacuum tube is facilitating the new development; an undreamed-of degree of cable efficiency will be possible by amplification of received cable signals. Cable and radio telegraphy each have their natural sphere of utility and are not essentially in conflict...
...Germany today, therefore, with the past shattered, the present tottering and the future unbelievably blank, the provocation to study, to gain power and information for reconstructing the badly-shaken fibres of the native land must be great. And that the youth of Germany are responding so enthusiastically is certainly the best guarantee of the German future. Meanwhile in America, a perfectly definite future, with few uncertainties other than the usual vicissitudes of business lends little to inspire the undergraduate to unusual efforts or to increased curiosity...
...little before the opening of college next fall. All expenses of this team are paid by the Government. The training courses cover the usual Army branches, Infantry, Field Artillery, Coast Artillery, Cavalry, Engineering, Signal Corps, the latter providing instruction in the various means of communication, such as radio and land line telegraphy, telephony, and various means of signalling. Exceptional students may be recommended for commissions in the Reserve...
...cause it to rise too high. The unskilled pilot: may let out gas in too much of a hurry, drop rapidly, throw out too- much ballast to check his descent, shoot up and lose more gas. "Bobbing up and down," he soon exhausts both gas and ballast and must land, throwing out food, instruments, clothing-a disgraceful sight. This year's elimination race was held under exceptionally favorable circumstances, with a steady, strong wind almost due north. Superiority in handling asserted itself as usual. All the balloons sailed away late in the evening at five-minute intervals Two balloons...