Word: bladed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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December was hateful and the squalling brat always woke up at six o'clock in the morning and had to be quieted. He walked the floor thinking of all the damned stupid calls he would have to make. He couldn't find a sharp razor blade and his eyes smarted. He cut himself painfully on the lip, and couldn't find a shoe-horn. The coffee always tasted stale the way he made it, and he away fried the eggs too long so that they were greasy and brown. The morning paper wouldn't stay propped up against the sugar...
...will lay special emphasis on paddles at this tempo, and also on racing starts and twenty-stroke sprints which are both essential factors of the short distance. At present the boat runs along in the water without checking, but the run itself is not impressive by any means. The blade-work moreover, is still a little ragged when the stroke is raised, and inboard several breaks are noticeable. With the presence, however, of six veterans in the boat, such kinks will undoubtedly soon be straightened out, and next week should see a much more rythmic and hence powerful outfit...
...banana, whose stalks hang upsidedown in the grocers, has leaves with blade 6 ft. to 8 ft. tall, 12 in. to 15 in. wide, petiole (stalk) up to 6 ft. long. (Stalk in cocoloba not over...
...Correspondent Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker, reported experiments by Dr. Adolf Rohrbach, head of Rohrbach Metal Airplane Construction Co., on an airplane without propeller or conventional wing. From each side of the fuselage extends an elongated paddle-wheel driven by a 120-h.p. engine. Each paddle-wheel is composed of three blades to provide lift and forward thrust. The angle of each blade shifts as the whole wheel revolves, thus giving thrust in any direction desired by the pilot. Rate of the wheel at cruising speed: 400 r.p.m...
...withdrawn from trans-Atlantic service by the French Line as "too old." Le Havre firemen dashed aboard at 2:30 a. m., put out the blaze after two hours of smart work. At Saigon in French Indo-China the French liner Angkor was held up by a cracked propeller blade...