Word: underground
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they warned against too precipitate airport building. Aviation still does not know what it requires in fields. Bad example is England's Croydon field. It was remodeled and enlarged just a year ago. Now it must be altered again at great cost. Airport ideas presented at Manhattan included underground passages to holes where planes would be waiting ready to start, great landing platforms over steamship piers, and a community arrangement around a circular field, its buildings rising in height as they recede from the centre. Next month at Cleveland, engineers will meet with architects, city planners, and flyers...
...similar apparatus are put into service, it is almost safe to predict that they will operate indefinitely without electrical break-down, unless the insulation is damaged by some abnormal electrical surge such as lightning strokes, or high voltages induced in the system by short circuits, or arcing grounds. With underground cables, however, the situation is entirely different. In the first place, it is not permissible to carry high-voltage lines into the centers of population because of the danger. Therefore, it becomes necessary to use underground cables. The ordinary high-voltage underground cable is insulated with paper tapes which...
...Underground (British Instructional Films, Ltd.) was written and directed by Anthony Asquith, 26, member of an English family which has already done much to entertain the U. S.* Few Asquiths, however, have used their wits as seriously as young Anthony in his account of a London subway guard who falls in love with what Britishers call a shopgirl. A plot, somewhat too complicated for strong drama, includes a rival lover who burns another girl to death against a high-tension switch, and a young wife who (married at last to her subway guard) rides around on the Underground just...
...spite of all these criticisms the acting is good, the voices are well handled, and through a long succession of obvious clinches, apes, lunatics, sliding bolts, and levers that drop floors into underground rivers, one gets a decided feeling of mystery which is well built up until the complete let down at the close...
Statement. Through the Associated Press and the United Press both heard last week via underground grapevine that King Alfonso had broken with General Primo de Rivera, the dictator had just rapped out the following statement to correspondents in Madrid...