Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time the waves take to make the round trip. If any return quickly enough to indicate that an obstacle is within 2,000 ft. from the airplane, a bell rings and a bright light flashes in the cockpit. The pilot can then pull into a climb in time to avoid any "terrain" hidden in the overcast (see diagram...
...airplane were flying directly toward a vertical cliff well over 2.000 ft. high with no foothills. But according to Hughes the U.S. has no such cliffs that an airplane can smash into. The foothills or lower slopes of most mountains should give warning in ample time to avoid a crash...
...this point there was plenty of time to avoid the mountains by an easy, gentle climb. But to show the wide margin of safety, Hughes flew the great plane into a steep-sided valley with mountains all around. At last he remarked calmly: "Now we'll take evasive action." The ship roared up in a steep, climbing turn to clear the rocks...
...University should purchase or procure from Widener enough books to stock a library of at least 2500 basic texts and reference works. Commuters should be allowed to check out books from this collection for overnight use at five or six o'clock in the afternoon in order to avoid remaining in the Square until the official liberation hour of the tomes on Widener's well stocked shelves...
...developed the part of Juno she caught some of the almost cruel indomitability with which she holds her rotting family together. She never approached, though, the real intensity which the role offers, her famous closing speech in particular falling below standard in what was evidently an attempt to avoid repetition of style...