Word: drag
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pass under Mt. Blanc's cold shoulder near the Franco-Swiss frontier. Weighing up to 200 Ib. in maturity, the St. Bernard dogs are noted for great strength, docility, intelligence, and an expression of almost idiotic benignity. From puppyhood, the dogs are taught to drag unconscious travelers as far as they can, then run & fetch the monks from the hospice. In times past the clogs actually carried around their necks the pictorially famed little kegs of brandy. Most illustrious of these lifesavers was Barry, who died while trying for his 41st rescue, was memorialized in bronze at the monastery...
...struts and wires which characterized old planes have been removed, the wing has increased from one-third of total drag to about half. To reduce this the NACA experimented with the friction set up by rivets and lapped plates on the wing surface. A modern plane weighing 20,000 Ib. and having a wing area of 1,000 sq. ft. was found to require 182 less horsepower to reach 225 m.p.h. if its wings were smoothly polished than if it had normal overlapping plates and brazier rivets with a head-diameter of 3/12...
Because they increase wing drag, wing deicers* are usually removed from U. S. airline transports during summer. Last week all wing deicers were off, but this time there was an added reason for their removal-they have been causing trouble on the new Douglas DC-38. On one American Airliner last month the rubber boot split, on another a section of the wing's skin crystallized and tore away. These incidents were minor, but enough to cause a Bureau of Air Commerce request that all present deicers be removed from DC-38 and improved to meet the greater stresses...
...Chicago. Mrs. Marion Felix Jones brought a rare equity action known as quia timet (because he fears) against her wealthy rubber-making father, Benjamin Bates Felix. At the start of hearings before a Master in Chancery which may drag on two years, Mrs. Jones testified that she is afraid she will not receive property valued at $500,000 orally promised by her grandfather because her father is under the domination of his second wife. Mrs. Jones is suing now to establish the oral promise as a constructive trust, before her father's death...
...boil about their plight and they may well land up, therefore, by being shunted off to University 4 and left to the unfortunate ministrations of those little Napoleons, the baby deans. Lest these men who, when tutorial is gone, will have very little left to turn to except Widener, drag the whole scheme into bad repute and allow it to develop ultimately into a two-degree system such as Oxford, with one man getting an education and the other merely ulcers of the stomach to show for four years in residence, immediate attention must be focused on the recently neglected...