Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...passenger planes with the Sperry "robot" pilot, a gyroscopic device which automatically keeps a plane on a set course (TIME. Oct. 19, 1931). In principle it was a success. But just as a human novice may fly a plane safely but clumsily, the robot pilot was awkward. Its worst fault was the same as the common fault of the human: slamming the controls this way & that. Besides jerking the ship about, it strained the controls. Since the robot first appeared, Sperry engineers and airline operators have been busy improving it. Last week the robot was presented again, this time...
...which did not keep the bargain was Warner Brothers. President Harry Warner said the company could not resume the old scale until April 17, a week later than the day set by the Academy. The production chief of Warner Brothers' studio, Darryl Francis Zanuck, found himself in an awkward position. He had persuaded Warners' indignant employes to take the cut in the first place. He resigned (TIME, April 24) without demanding a settlement for his contract which had 4½ years to run, soon announced plans to form an independent producing company with Joseph Schenck, president of United...
...creaking of wheel chairs as 8,000 veterans, representatives of 8,000,000 more in a dozen countries, stumbled in ungainly parade through the streets to let the Disarmament Conference know that they were tired of talk. The veterans were representatives of two international associations with names as awkward as their own twisted limbs, the Federation Inter alliee des Anciens Combattants (FIDAC) and the Conference Internationale des Associations de Mutiles de la Guerre et des Anciens Combattants (CIAMAC...
Michael J. Kelly was a big, shambling, jovial Irish baseballer who played with Cincinnati, the Chicago "White Stockings'' and Boston from 1879 to 1893. Awkward on the field, he was smart and nervy enough to become one of the best players of his time. He was almost uncatchable on the bases, became celebrated in the song ''Slide. Kelly, Slide." In a Boston hospital, fatally ill of pneumonia, he slipped off a stretcher. Cried Kelly: "This is my last slide." Said Mrs. John Masefield, in New York, of her crossing aboard the S. S. Mauretania with...
...curtain falls on an admittedly awkward solution, but this is a minor matter. The anti-climactic nature of any "happy ending" romantic story is inherent. The third act would never be criticized but for the fact that it suffers in comparison to the ecstatic rush of the first two. Bluntly put, "The Perfect Marriage" was delightful. One leaves the theatre in the glamorous mood that marks the romanticist's tempestuous existence...