Word: armes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hard as if I hadn't had the wings." But he turned to less violent experiments. From hangar to hangar at Roosevelt Field, L. I. last week trudged Farmer Perry, a spare, spectacled figure in grey cap and overcoat, with a bulky bundle under his arm. He was looking for someone to try his latest invention-"a resistance eliminator, or anti-drag fan." Inventor Perry showed it: a 12-in. steel disc equipped with four scoop-like blades to be affixed to the spinner (hub) of an airplane propeller. "It makes a partial vacuum in front of the propeller...
...December seventeenth Dunster House will gather in a panelled dining room for a banquet and light roistering. On the same evening the students of Lowell will climb up to a tower and listen in arm chairs to a program of serious music. Both Houses are remembering Christmas. One thousand, nine hundred and thirty years ago Wise Men traveled miles to find a stable and to celebrate the same occasion...
With his son King Feisal of Irak supporting one arm, and with his other son the Amir Abdullah of Transjordania supporting his other arm, forlorn former King Hussein of the Hejaz landed in Palestine last week, en route from his exile on the Island of Cyprus to Amman, capital of Transjordiana. Object: needed medical attention...
...punctually Editor Aymard and Cartoonist Sennep turned up arm-in-arm in La Salle des Pas-Perdus (the hall of lost footsteps) in which journalists and deputies pace. They were set upon by a pack of Socialist statesmen. Elderly Editor Aymard jerked a dog whip from his pocket, laid about him. Deputy Barthe, a questor of the Chamber, rushed up in an attempt to preserve order as was his duty, caught the whip full across his face...
When asked if the United States should arm up to the full limitations of her naval treaties, Senator Walsh said, "Yes, but only because this is the only way to achieve ultimate disarmament." He explained that in past disarmament conferences, the United States has been handicapped by having a navy that was relatively small and not being able to disarm to as great a degree as other nations with already topheavy fleets if the United States were armed up to the ratios, she could then agree to any cut in a percentage basis with other countries, and still maintain proper...