Word: voir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Piccard thrusts his hairy head out the port, beckons to Mme Piccard. With a flourish he kisses her hand. He signals the ground-crew of 100 to cast off. Silently, easily the balloon rises. Professor Piccard laughs merrily, waves, cries: "Au revoir, Marianne! Au revoir, mes enfants! An 'voir!" He swings the port to, is gone. . . . Within the aluminum globule Professor Piccard was almost grudging about the occasional attention he must give to his instruments. He wanted to be at one of the nine window ports, watching the earth drop away, watching the heavens em brace him. ... He found...