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...went back to St. Paul's as a teacher-an angular, inarticulate man who reminded his students of Lincoln. But when World War I began he crammed his air training into three days, served in France as a combat aviator. He was to be a squadron commander, came home unscathed-although he had crashed seven times-and settled down in Concord to begin a political career...
...next day he and everybody else got a surprise. In the middle of a casual interview, amiable, angular Senator Saltonstall told newsmen that he was not really a presidential candidate; all he wanted to be was Massachusetts' best senator. Then he ticked off his own list of "leading candidates." Tom Dewey was No. 1. The others, in Saltonstall's order: Warren, Taft, Stassen, Eisenhower, and Speaker Joe Martin. That did not mean that Saltonstall was out as a New England favorite, or that he had given Dewey his blessing. But Farmer Tom left Springfield in a good mood...
...foot which Young Henry put in the soil last week also came down hard on the neck of an angular Irish inventor named Harry Ferguson. In 1939, Ferguson, who had perfected a hydraulic lift device to keep tractors from turning over when the plow hit obstructions, became old Henry Ford's "only partner." Ford had stopped making his Fordson tractor in the '20s when it lost money. But for Ferguson, Ford made 306,181 tractors, this time with the Ferguson lift. They were sold exclusively by Ferguson, Inc., which relied heavily on Ford dealers...
...students of engineering and physics . . . comprehend and appreciate the statics of the system, but we are at a loss to account for the phrase "distortion point 310°." Does the 310° refer to angular measure and if so, is the plane of distortion horizontal or vertical? Or does it refer to temperature, and if so, is the scale Fahrenheit, Centigrade, or Kelvin? If the scale is Kelvin, we look with breathless anticipation to certain conditions to which the system must eventually be subjected...
...where P is the strength of the magnetic field; ß is a constant near unity; G is the gravitational constant (6.670 X 10^-8); c is the speed of light; U is the angular momentum (spin) of a revolving body...