Word: camber
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...body with graceful curving wings. Bonney followed the bird principle, abandoned the aileron, or balancing contrivance which airplane designers have always considered an essential feature of stability in the air. His plane had new features: an expanding and contracting tail, like a blackbird's, for varying loads; variable camber in the wings, so that they could flatten out like a gull's when flying level; a varying angle of incidence to its wings, so that they could turn sideways into the wind on landing, and let him drop onto a landing field "no bigger than a handkerchief...
...Soldier"; songs by a young German modernist, Hindemith and above all, the very famous work for reciting voice and instruments, "Dierrot Lunaire" by Arnold Schoenberg, which has created a sensation in other cities where the movement has been stirring. The concert is organized under the auspices of the Camber Music Society of Boston and the Boston Flute Players Club. The Vagabond has been perhaps too greatly influenced by the expressions of prominent critics who have favored the movement, but beyond the critics and their arguments, the evening has its attractions...