Word: midair
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...eagle reeled crazily in the air, sideslipped, almost dropped into the foam. The cook sought to lure it to alight and rest by spreading meat scraps upon the stern. The eagle soared once more by great effort, distanced the ship for an instant, suddenly appeared to faint in midair, fell thump upon the deck...
From Rochester, N. Y., locus of the Eastman Kodak Works, came news. An experiment had been made with aerial photography at night by flashlight. A Martin bomber 3000 feet up dropped 50 pounds of flashlight powder which was detonated in midair. Seven special cameras and a cinema machine clicked. There was a swift and powerful flash-it lasted only one-fiftieth of a second-then a tremendous explosion "rocked the buildings," "broke windows" (a few). The photographs were a "success." "Useful in war," said observers...
...fewer to leap from it entwined about someone else, still fewer if their bones were old and their years numbered over 70. Yet two curmudgeons-Sir Claude Champion de Crespigny, 78, and Otto Hagburgh, 71-lately performed this feat in England. The London Times' photo showed then in midair...
...Paris, one Albert Jauron announced that he had perfected an anti- aircraft projectile which, upon exploding in midair, would fling out a net to enmesh or envelop an airplane as a lepidopterist snares a butterfly. The Japanese Government having recently announced the adoption of just such a shell, Inventor Jauron declared he would...
...glow. A switch is turned. Terrible energy flies along the beam. The mouse jumps into the air, quivers, is dead. So, in the future, Prof. Grindell-film such prophetic visions-the death ray will sweep whole armies into oblivion, whole cities into bleak, smoldering ruins, explode bombs in midair, blow up ammunition dumps from great distances; in a word, make existence for those who do not possess its mysterious secret impossible, and, so he says...