Word: approaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Oldtime airmen can recall no factual basis for the episode referred to in Air Mail, an episode which air transport men regard as libelous. Nearest historical approach to the legend is the case of the late "Al" Wilson, Hollywood stunt pilot, who jumped from a spinning Sikorsky bomber, leaving in the ship a man who was manipulating smokepots for a cinema shot. The passenger also wore a 'chute but made no apparent move to jump. The Professional Pilots' Association investigated, concluded that Pilot Wilson had jumped without warning, drummed him out of its ranks. Last September...
Last week the Press's watchdogs exulted over what they thought was the approach of a crisis in the quarrel of ink v. air. The American Newspaper Publishers Association directorate adopted a resolution against giving news to Radio; and the Associated Press determined to poll its embattled membership on the question...
...Never before has any attempt of mine at an approach to the beautiful sex met with such an energetic rebuff; even should perchance such have ever been the case, then certainly not by so many all at once...
...definite advantages which such periodic meetings offer them. By conversation with colleagues a student can be brought into contact with many branches of his subject that he would otherwise overlook. As different phases of a subject are brought out in such meetings, so should be displayed various methods of approach to those phases. The whole effect of even a superficial collaboration of this kind should be a unifying one, simultaneously adding to and coordinating one's fields of thought...
This set-up economizes the energy thrown into the ultra short waves. Theoretically those waves, which approach light waves in rapid brevity, should behave like light and travel only in straight lines. Theoretically such waves cannot bend around Earth's circumference and thus serve to carry messages long distances. But Inventor Marconi has been communicating with them across 180 mi. Says he: ". . . For some reason . . . the waves are deflected and travel further than they should according to theory...