Word: midair
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...alarm, tragedy overtook U. S. Army flyers sent to loop a sister continent. Major Herbert A. Dargue and his relief pilot, Lieut. Innis C. Whitehead leaped free and their parachutes saved them. Captain Clinton F. Woolsey fell free too late. Lieut. John W. Benton burned, his cremation starting in midair. South America's good will, which the Army flight had been planned to stimulate, turned to pity, horror...
...feel of an engine throttle and the heft of a tool." They saw a barrel-chested iron-forger, naked above his leather apron, poising his sledge for a blow. They saw a strong-armed Nordic guiding an electric drill, and a cool Nordic in overalls _ and gauntlets, riding midair on a girder -perhaps a bone in the steel skeleton of the new Book Building, "world's highest." They saw the muscular, furious, aging Christ striding over the world more like a scourge than a savior-the figure of Christ that had caused so much ferment in Sculptor Kalish...
...little man, Charles Clavier, 33, regarded the ship's radio equipment with dancing eyes. That was to be his job, to pick up weather signals midair; to study the air tides, take the radio compass bearings. It was work with which 18 years in the French navy, including four trans-Mediterranean air flights, had made him most familiar. He had brought over from France special instruments, contributed by the big corporation, Radio des Industries. After an annoying fortnight with U. S. customs officials, he had installed and tested his station while the ship's engines and flying gear...
...fifth and grossest of all edition of Earl Carroll's Vanities, in spite of an irrelevant dash of Spanish atmosphere, presents the most authentic (but not at all unusual) impression of a medical student's nightmare. Bodies! Bodies! Bodies! Stuck all over the stage. Hung in midair, on dangling hooks. Rigid-as the law requires. Slowly they are wheeled in circles, yanked up, let down, by fiendish, invisible agencies. Occasionally they spring into action, appear as living, writhing creatures. Into this horror have strayed a few bits of freshness-Magda de Bries in a rattling dance, Moran...
...side, were dragged into the main street. A A rope was put around the neck of each and the free end was thrown over the cross bar of a lamp post. Strong arms pulled, the ropes slid over the bar, and the two figures hung inert and lifeless in midair. The crowd cheered...