Word: midair
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...through the air suspended by two cards-none of these successive changes interfered; the named cards continued to rise. The up-and-down motion of the cards obeyed the indication of the outstretched hand of any member of the audience. Cards rose high above the frame, stood motionless in midair, descended into the frame again. As a finale the entire deck swooped out of the globe-covered frame...
Miltiades III is a teddy bear's head. The eyes roll, the head turns, the head rises in midair. When a member of the audience took a number of cards at random from a deck presented by Magician Mullholland, the jaws of Miltiades III clicked the number of cards before the recipient had counted them himself...
...service in Iraq, the British government has been using 25-passenger transport airplanes. So successful has the experiment been that the British admit they are designing 50-passenger air transports, with central engine, capable of being repaired in midair for minor troubles. Such planes would be immense: the largest Junkers plane seats only 18 passengers...
Motoring to Elizabethton from the rail-road station at Childress, the Nominee's motorcade was delayed by street-jaming crowds. Factory whistles droned. Bands played "California, Here I Come" and "Dixie." Bombs burst in midair. The cheering was continuous. There was no heckling...
...captain of the Argentine team is Jack Nelson, rich breeder of ponies, horses, cattle. Then there is Lewis L. Lacey, a ten-handicap player, blue-eyed, slight of frame, five and a half feet tall, one of the grandest poloists in the world. He made famous the hit in midair, and it became known as a "Lacey." His appearance in the U. S. in 1926 was a sensation and a popular one. Last year he was operated on for appendicitis, but his game has been at its peak ever since. With him the Argentine looms...