Word: cabined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lonely cabin on Paradise Lake near Seattle, police found E. V. Maltby, onetime wealthy vice president & general manager of the defunct Rural Grain Co. of Chicago. He had grown a beard, stocked the cabin with provisions. He was held in Seattle jail for Chicago authorities on an indictment charging nine violations of the Grain Futures...
Even the faculty and their wives became interested. They formed themselves into classes to receive instruction. The Dartmouth Outing Club installed lights on one hill so that night skiing, otherwise a very tricky affair became possible. A nearby cabin on the Outing Club chain was opened as a resting station and a coffee-house for those who took long afternoon jaunts...
...course this meant that more competitions in skiing were revived and initiated. For one thing Cabin and Trail, consisting of about sixty-five men who govern the Outing Club, journey eight miles out to Moose Cabin, stayed overnight and then raced back to the campus next morning in a traditional event that had been dropped along with several other fading traditions which have lost importance in this blase collegiate...
...experiment and have been demonstrated with small craft (TIME, Sept. 15, 1930). But Army Air Corps engineers declare that a 'chute cannot be built big enough to support a heavily loaded transport. Instead, it became known last week, they are developing a combination of 'chute and detachable cabin. The 'chute jerks the cabin, intact with passengers, free of the fuselage of the disabled plane and lets it drop slowly. The pilot jumps from the cockpit (forward of the cabin) with his own 'chute while the remainder of the ship crashes. At Wright Field (Dayton, Ohio...
...single control stick or "joystick" (named, by doubtful legend, after one Joyce) is a lever which the pilot moves fore & aft to nose the plane down or up; side to side to make the plane bank. All standard planes are operated by joystick, except transports and heavy cabin planes which have Deperdussin ("Dep"). (All planes are steered left & right by pedals.) In Washington last week the U. S. Court of Claims heard arguments of a Frenchman who alleges that every joystick built in the U. S. is an infringement on his patents...