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...Diringshofen, is centrifugal force. "In a bombing attack the bombs are often released in an almost vertical dive at a speed which may be above 310 miles an hour and are released when the aeroplane is only 2,200-1,900 feet above the ground. Immediately the bomber must ascend to avoid the ground." If such a change in direction takes place in about six seconds, the pilot is pressed into his seat with a force more than eight times his weight, and his blood becomes heavier than iron...
...instruction in what to do when the submarine obstinately refuses to rise from the ocean bed. Harvard groups will have the opportunity to ascend from imaginary ocean depths in a cylindrical tank over fifty feet deep. Oxygen is supplied by a "lung...
...Lord Halifax contends, German youth has been "deliberately deprived of the elements of true judgment," this is hardly its own fault. It has been misled by its chauvinistic leaders, who, as his Lordship should remember, could only ascend to power in a Germany that had been crippled by Allied chauvinism at Versailles. Thus, if the German intellect has suffered a general blackout, Lord Halifax and his peace-loving generation should take their full share of credit...
...Portugal, has been dispatched by General Franco to see former King Alfonso XIII. Alfonso fortnight ago held a "conference" of Spanish Monarchists at Lausanne, Switzerland. It has long been thought that in case of a restoration Alfonso's 26-year-old son, Prince Juan, rather than Alfonso, would ascend the throne. The Duke of Maura, eldest son of the onetime Monarchist Premier of Spain, was a trusted adviser of Alfonso, helped frame the final message that Alfonso gave to Spain at the time he was forced from the throne...
...this year near the Chancellery building in Vatican City came upon five sculptured panels. By last week these were generally believed to be part of the Triumphal Arch of Tiberius. One of the carvings bore the only likeness of the studious emperor as an old man (he did not ascend the throne until...