Word: wave
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more acres and be anchored at intervals across the Atlantic. Brilliant searchlights would radiate from them, and to them would swoop ocean-crossing aircraft, heavy-laden with freight and passengers. In the seadromes' vitals, which would extend so far down into the deep ocean that no wave-motion would be noticed by the most squeamish visitor, would be fuel and food supplies, machine shops and the foundations of hotels where ocean travelers could rest en route between Atlantic City, N. J., and Plymouth, England. Engineer Armstrong believes that where distance is the object of aviation, speed should be sacrificed...
...nine-inch lens (the largest ever ground for a camera) to photograph the earth from an altitude of seven miles or so. Experts of the Eastman Kodak Company (Rochester, N. Y.) had fashioned it, providing also a film specially sensitized to record light at the infra-red (long wave, dull light) end of the spectrum, a film taking exposures nine inches square, 100 exposures to a roll. Lieut. George W. Goddard will soon have the camera mounted in the rear cockpit of his plane, at the flying post in Dayton, Ohio, with a heating apparatus around it to protect...
...volunteer for the job of opening the valves was an engineer and before orders could be outlined to him in detail, he impatiently jumped over the rail into the swirling waters and clambered on one of the pontoons. As he reached to open the valve, a wrathful wave rushed over him. For a moment he and the pontoon were out of sight, and the next moment the pontoon reappeared unpopulated. There was a frenzy of excitement until the grinning head of the amphibious engineman was spotted atop another wave. He was captured and brought back to the boat...
...power, at once placid and stern, a sort of deep pagan content, that lived in the head. Here was no irritable Roman Jove, waiting at the least vexation to scatter thunderbolts in all directions like sparklers, but a Grecian gentleman, portentous as a hill, poised serenely as a wave...
...more than a month since Aimee Semple McPherson, famed and wealthy evangelist, owner and builder of the $1,000,000 Angelus Temple, Los Angeles, dove into mystery through a broken wave (TIME, June 7). She was taking her second dip of a June afternoon; her secretary sat reading on the beach; thousands of people were bathing all round her, but with that dive Aimee McPherson vanished as completely as if she had stepped through a looking-glass into the Never-Never Land. Last week Aimee McPherson, in a gingham gown spattered with mud, tottered into the police-office of Douglas...