Word: oxygenated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...substantially constant". Laying emphasis on the failure to penetrate beyond a transition zone of light and heavy atmosphere, he expressed a conviction that with the accessibility to a greater elevation a more distinct transformation would be evident. Results of the recent flight yielded valuable specimens of ozone, a high oxygen layer which deflects ultraviolet rays, and revealed the presence of living spores and bacteria at the highest altitudes...
...have cast shadows of doubt over their future. For a group that was once the very button on Fortune's cap has sunk low indeed in her favors, falling prey to the twin troubles of changing musical tastes and of lethargy on the part of their members, and unless oxygen is quickly applied, the flame of life may go out entirely. Yet the Instrumental Clubs need only a few readjustments in their program, plus vigorous and enthusiastic leadership, to bring back their once vaunted eminence...
...rescue craft her position on the sea floor; the Momsen artificial lungs (TIME, Aug. n, 1930) with which some of the Nautilus' crew pass to the surface through the emergency release hatch; the salvage air intake to which a diver, reaching a disabled craft, can attach an oxygen line, feeding air to the imprisoned crew until they can be rescued in the rescue bell-a sort of undersea elevator operated on cables from the salvage ship above. If Devil's Playground had been made several years ago, when its cast names were at the top of their...
...mechanics called the plane "a big engine with a saddle." At 2:14 a. m. he climbed into the "saddle," said he might land at Chicago, leaped into the dark. null his big motor thundering, he bored up through the heavy overcast to 20,000 ft., pulled on an oxygen mask, set off across...
...little over 22,000 feet . . . and just when I am beginning to wonder how much less oxygen I can get along without, there is the sun! From the strangely low angle it seems to pop up at us. The chromium plated struts gleam and twinkle, and the vivid orange wings take on new light...