Word: pioneers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First of the scheduled radio broadcasts of classroom lectures will take place tomorrow afternoon at 4:30 o'clock, with an address on "Dante" by George B. Weston, associte professor of Romance Languages. This inaugurates a pioneer experiment in the international broadcasting of regular University lectures...
...ascended, there are several layers of such ions which increase in density during sunspot peaks. This is to be expected since sunspots are accompanied by heavier ultra violet bombardment. These electrified layers serve to deflect most radio waves, curve them around the bulge of earth. In radio's pioneer days, when only one layer was known, it was called the Kennelly-Heaviside layer after its discoverers. Now the electrified region as a whole is more generally referred to as the ionosphere...
First man to fly across Long Island Sound was Millionaire Clifford Burke Harmon in a bamboo and piano-wire contraption in 1910. Pioneer Harmon has been the world's most air-minded amateur ever since. In 1925 he founded the Ligue Internationale des Amateurs, which he dreamed would become a sort of international flying police force called Silver Wings of Peace. Instead it has become merely a clearing house for records and a donor of awards. Last week, the Ligue, of which stalwart, 68-year-old Clifford Harmon is still kingpin, announced the latest winner of its most important...
...naturalized U. S. citizen of 49, dark-eyed Enea Bossi was a pioneer pilot in Italy, taught famed Giuseppe Bellanca how to fly. Later he designed many successful ships, fought in the War, where he knew Corporal Benito Mussolini fairly well. Said Enea Bossi last week: "He's a big fella now. I've only seen him twice since he got to be a big fella...
...Lawrence Sperry, who drowned in the English Channel in 1923. was the youngest son of famed Inventor Elmer A. Sperry (marine gyrocompass and gyroscope). A pioneer of air instruments and of blind flying, Lawrence Sperry invented such indispensable aids to flight as the gyropilot, bank & turn indicator, early efficient parachute. His family last year endowed with $10,000 an annual award for the greatest contribution to aeronautics by men under...