Word: aloft
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Also there was a parade of butchers, millers, coopers and brewers. Standard bearers held aloft their ancient guild emblems and heralds, twinkling in gilded costumes, blew trumpets...
...aboard the Shipping Board liner America when she left Manhattan for Cherbourg last week. All the journey across the Atlantic, and back to Manhattan, the young men are to blow up the balloons with gas and watch them float and bob away to the limit of their tethers. While aloft the balloons will indicate upper air currents. When they are pulled back to the America's deck, self-registering thermometers on some will show upper air temperature variation. All the observations will provide facts for theses on hitherto incompletely known ocean aerology, which the three lieutenants will complete this...
Above Valparaiso, Ind., an airplane scuttled, alit, scuttled aloft again, like a busy grasshopper. "That's Loewenstein's," exclaimed burghers out marketing and hastened to Morris Loewenstein's grocery store...
...world's record for sustained flight has passed back and forth between Germans, French, and Americans. It is considered of the greatest importance by airplane designers and well-wishers, for it creates public confidence in the ability of ships to stay aloft without danger...
Many were the women, young and old, and men, too, who tried to look like Congressmen's relatives. One impostor actually succeeded in looking like Representative Parks of Arkansas, and was taken aloft...