Word: craft
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Peter Cooper Hewitt and Francis Bacon Crocker have both experimented with the helicopter and obtained encouraging results. Scores of patents have been issued for this type of craft and the inventors have been divided into two classes--those who try to lift the machine by vertical propellors and those who attempt it with rotating wings...
...Third Course will be six lectures on Industrial Hygiene, by Dr. Thomas Morrison Legge, D. P. rf., of London, England. Dr. Legge is author of "Public Health in European Capitals," etc. 1. Manufacture under Medieval Craft Guilds. 2. Industrial Fatigue. 3. Modern Industry as a subject for Art. 4. Fumes and Gases and the Edward Medal. 5. Anthrax. 6. Industrial Polsons and Their Prevention...
...Haven. The Yale team, with a nucleus from last year's unbeaten nine, was expected to have another championship season. Its three early victories and the rise of a new star pitcher bade fair to fulfill this prophecy. But, in spite of its favorable start, the Eli craft has had a rocky voyage. A long losing streak, in which the pitching hope was twice driven from the box, has spread a cloud of gloom over Yale's great expectations...
...special summer course in aeronautics is also being offered by the same organization. This course embraces a series of lectures on types of aircraft and their uses, illustrating their development from the earliest experimental forms to the modern craft used for commercial purposes. Instruction in navigation, the plotting of course, and the use of navigation instruments is also included in this course, and will be put in practice in actual flights with hydro-aeroplanes. The duration of this course is two months. Classes will be organized for July 1st and 15th, additional courses being provided for as conditions warrant...
From a night of calm security I rose, as did thousands about me, to the day's work. But before I could leave my room the steam whistles of all the great industries in the great city and of all the steam craft in its great harbor began to blow.; to bellow and scream and roar and wail in unnumbered voices that presently fused into one and rolled down through hundreds of miles of streets into the open country...