Word: skyward
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...STRUGGLE: THE LIFE OF COMMANDER BYRD-Charles J. V. Murphy-Stokes ($2.50), most recent biography of the man. Commander Byrd tells practically nothing of his ancestors or his private life in SKYWARD-Putnam ($3.50). Skyward is his only published book. His Navigation of the Air is a thick pamphlet. He has in manuscript a book on philosophy...
People who looked skyward the nights of Nov. 14 and 15 saw the year's amplitude of meteors. Earth was making its annual passage through the orbit of the Leonids. Their orbit is a vast ellipsis swinging beyond even Jupiter, and along its path race hunks of stone, iron and other minerals. When those pieces strike the Earth's atmosphere friction makes them terrifically hot. They burn with an intense blue flame. Some burn up entirely, some plunge into Earth's earth or seas, adding their mite to Earth's size and power among the astral...
...Electric & Manufacturing Co. and demonstrated last week at Bettis Field,*McKeesport, Pa. This device, essentially, is a mechanical ear which may be set to 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...
...Manhattan, the Underwood photography service issued a picture of a monstrous cannon tilted skyward, ejecting from its muzzle a human figure. The cannon .was real, the figure a German woman who, at Berlin, allowed herself to be shot from the cannon into a net 40 metres distant, without injury...
...London. More than 100,000 people were waiting for Captain Lindbergh at the Croydon Aerodrome. They broke down police barriers, swarmed on the landing-field as soon as his plane was sighted. He swooped down looking for barren ground, saw none, returned skyward. On the second attempt, his plane touched ground, but was forced to rise again because hero-worshipers insisted on dogging his path. His third attempt was rewarded with a clear field. Before he could climb out of his plane, the sea of the mob surrounded him-bowling over women, leaving the official reception committee stranded...