Word: top
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dinner which the 99 attended in Moscow was tendered them by the Soviet Department for Western Trade. Pursuant to a Soviet request "to kindly leave behind furbelows, top hats, canes and other vanities that might strike a bourgeois note in the communist paradise," the 99 tourists attended in sack suits, travelling dresses. When the star-spangled strains had subsided, Comrade Poliayukov, president of the Russian-American Trading Corporation, rose beaming at the head of the speaker's table and boomed: "Welcome to Soviet Russia. While you are here you are invited to partake of as much vodka and caviar...
Dirigibles for Offense. Up under the belly of the dirigible Los Angeles last week rose a Navy service plane. Both craft were traveling 60 m. p. h. On the top wing of the plane was a big hook. Down from the dirigible extended a rigid trapeze. The plane's pilot successfully maneuvered to engage hook with trapeze so that the plane hung there, was carried along. Three times the plane thus made successful contact. The experiment had been effected previously with smaller, semirigid Navy dirigibles, never with the big Los Angeles. Experts viewed the work as changing big dirigibles...
Somehow 150 men fought to the top of Mount Tamalpais, saved historic Tamalpais Tavern. Blistering, snapping at every twig and leaf, the flames swept down into Blythedale Canyon and toward fine homes, set on the knees of the mountain...
...trap the heart's action current they would strap two electrodes to the subject's chest, one above the heart's top, the other about six inches lower. From the electrodes ran 60-ft. wires to a "cardiotachometer," which Dr. Boas devised. Vacuum tubes in the cardiotachometer amplified the heart action current which thereupon operated a counting device and a recording pen. The long wires enabled the subject to practice most of his usual occupations. The counter recorded the total number of his heart beats over any desired period (most importantly for study, during sleep...
Those few flyers who have been able to get seven miles above the earth have been at the top of the earth's atmosphere layer. They have been able to stay there only a few moments, for the temperature is 75 degrees below Fahrenheit zero and the air-pressure is one-eighth of what man is built to endure. Nor could the thin air sustain the planes or sufficiently burn the fuel...