Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...listen, while airport attendants sleep, for any ships that pass in the night. It is a microphone, with a large "loud-hearer" attached and turned skyward, with an adjustment preventing isolated or in- termittent sounds (thunder, gun shots) from registering. Only the steady hum of an airplane motor affects it. What the microphone hears is amplified 100 million times, the sound then being transformed into electric current capable of throwing the airport's floodlight switch...
...Bourget flying field, near Paris, ventured Charles A. Levine, stubby, irascible transatlantic flyer. There he bade mechanics start the motor of his plane, the Columbia. When they obeyed, thinking he wished to taxi about the field for amusement, Charles A. Levine got in all by himself, reared along the runway, tilted the wings, jolted clumsily into the air, swooped dangerously over the airdrome, then set out over the Channel for England...
Months of research, consultations with eye witnesses, ordering and comparing of records went into making the volume. It is designed to guide the most meticulous motor tourist from spot to spot along all the fronts where U. S. troops went into action. The- exploits and reverses of each different division are mapped in separate colors. Curt accompanying narratives enable the tourist to follow, or fight over again in memory, the entire Argonne campaign, for example- Montfaucon, Vauquois, Grand Pre, Sommerance, Romagne, Cunel, Nantilleis, Brieulles sur Bar, etc., etc., with 500 pictures selected from the 100,000 on file in Washington...
Died. Bartolomeo Vanzetti, 39, fishmonger, convicted of murder; by electrocution in Charlestown, Mass. (see p. 10). Died. Louis Agassiz Fuertes, 53, naturalist, painter of birds; from burns and crushing in a grade crossing motor accident near Unadilla...
Thieves climbed into a commercial plane at Troy, Ohio; tinkered with the gadgets; started the motor; flew away with the plane...