Word: de
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, Jan. 11 and March 8) which taxed the credulity of one of your correspondents, is no novelty in air warfare. Precisely such a weapon, of 37 mm. calibre, was mounted in the shaft of the 300 h.p. Spad supplied to leading French pursuit pilots, back in September, 1918. De Turenne, my escadrille commander, had one. So did foremost French ace Fonck, who on one occasion had fired the canon, was easing away in a power dive to shake off some Fokkers behind him when one of the empty 37 mm. shell cases jammed his stick control, so that...
Admittedly, accommodation is unobtainable at the first-class or de luxe hotels in London, but I have found little difficulty in accommodating the type of passenger desiring this grade of hotel, in service apartments where he will find an equivalent degree of comfort at rates within comparatively reasonable limits...
...United Automobile Workers' de mand for recognition as sole bargaining agent for all Chrysler employes, Richard T. Frankensteen, chief automobile union organizer in Detroit, telephoned a code phrase "My hand is up" to his lieutenants in the factories and within two hours all Chrysler plants in Detroit were shut tight (TIME, March...
...employers about it. They at once passed the word to other lines using DC-3's. United Air Lines, whose February crash into San Francisco Bay was still a mystery, quickly took another look at the wreckage in which seasoned Pilot Alexander Raymond ("Tommy") Thompson, Co-Pilot Joe De Cesaro and nine other persons perished (TIME, Feb. 22). They looked in the cockpit and there lay the simple evidence: Co-Pilot De Cesaro's microphone jammed in the V-shaped well at the base of the control column, bent and crushed as by heavy pressure. Reconstructing the tragedy...
Anatomists and physicians have known a good deal of all this since 1628, when William Harvey published his De Motu Cordis. But enough remained unknown to cause Dr. Miller 47 years of research. It was he who discovered the lungs' atria. He proved that the significant unit of lung architecture is the lobule. He systematized the whole lung anatomy, rationalized its physiology. He anatomized the tubercle of Ghon, the spot in the lung from which certain cases of pulmonary tuberculosis develop in children. He guided a former assistant, Professor Olof Larsell of the University of Oregon, in mapping...