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...comfortably enclosed cabin. After a 14-hour night trip in terrible weather from Scott Field, Ill., to Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, during which the rudder was out of commission for two hours, the dirigible was moored in apparent safety−only to be set on fire by a flash of lightning! Sergeant Harry Barnes of the Air Service and A. C. Maranville of the Goodyear Rubber Company, builders of the airship, jumped to safety from a height of 40 feet and escaped with bruises. The dirigible can meet all emergencies except fire. Further production and the use of helium...
...airplane which traced smoke letters in the sky yesterday to advertise a familiar commodity was probably not operated by a college man. Such skywriting is a final flash of old advertising methods with which the educated man had little sympathy. A new advertising is developing, however, in which he finds an acceptable place, in which the cultured man will actually be more valuable than the paperhanger and the circus band...
...vivid flash comes the realization that men are atoms living on the hardened crust of a boiling pot--on a tiny ball itself whirling among countless similar balls, according to one vast plan. Today the earth merely trembles, the seismograph vibrates, and the scientist asks: "Somewhere...
...Sure. Caviar on a griddle cake with a side of heavy oream." Most people would not have dared ask for this particular kind of flash, knowing the "drag" necessary to get it. Willie realizes the reward for his politeness for the waitress appears with his order...
Professor Theodore Lyman '97 spoke on "Flash and Sound Ranging". Professor Lyman, who was connected with this work during the war, outlined the method of procedure in locating hostile batteries by flash and sound computations, and told of the remarkably accurate results that were obtained...