Word: cabined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nameless woman. Married to a rich husband in the East, with two children, she left them to come out to the desert to nurse her "lunger" lover, ten years younger than herself. He recovered and one fine day up & left her. She stayed on in the lonely cabin by herself, waiting for him to come back. He never did. She contracted tuberculosis herself, caught from him, and gradually wasted away. As she was being taken to a California hospital to die, a honeymoon couple passed the open door of the baggage car where she was lying on a stretcher...
...outstanding achievement of his department. Twenty-five pilots and researchers conducted the tests at the U. S. Naval Research Laboratory at Anacostaia, D. C., the pilots taking up all types of ships used by the Navy under all kinds of conditions, bringing down samples of air from cockpit & cabin, giving samples of their own blood for analysis after each flight...
...found, as expected, that cabin planes were free of the CO menace, as exhaust gas cannot enter the cabin in quantities. Worst offenders were observation and bombing planes, both open cockpit types. Two observation pilots showed an absorption of 15% CO in the blood. A pilot and observer in a bombing plane showed 10% absorption. Such amounts of the gas, if not retained too long, might cause nothing serious; but frequent subjection over long periods of time might sap the pilot's strength and alertness. Exhaust stacks were redesigned to lead the gases down and away from the cockpit...
...Dessau, Germany, the Junkers factory is completing its first "stratosphere" plane, a low-wing monoplane of 40 ft. wingspread with a sealed cabin and a special air compressor to permit the engine to operate at altitudes greater than 7 mi. Claimed speed: 1,000 m.p.h
...Western Reserve Eclectic Institute at Hiram, Ohio, went in 1851 a young man, log-cabin-born, who had been a canal-boat driver, farmer, carpenter. The Institute was new, had been founded the year before by the Church of the Disciples of Christ. James Abram Garfield studied there three years and then, ambitious, went on to Williams College. In 1856 he returned to the little village which (so the story . went) had been chosen by the Disciples of Christ because its doctor had a dilapidated buggy, a bony nag-his poverty suggesting that Hiram was healthy. Young Garfield taught Ancient...