Word: earth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...commanding position in a new field of applied science. While we cannot hope to produce aeronautical engineers or even pilots, undergraduates as well as graduates would receive knowledge of the fundamental operations of that most important operative factor in man's environment, the weather. We walk on the earth, and have done so in all past ages; but we also walk and live in the air, and are now beginning to utilize our power to spring from earth and traverse the air. The importance of knowing more about that medium is apparent. "The air's the thing and before long...
Approximately 18,000 square yards of earth will have to be removed before the construction work can get under way. An area almost twice that of the Langdell Hall as it now stands will be dug to a depth of between 9 and 16 feet...
...architects, Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch, and Abbot, estimate that their work will be completed in four or five weeks, depending upon the weather. Another steam shovel will be put into use today, bringing the total dirt removing capacity of the three machines to 1500 or 1800 square yards of earth...
...little wings like an airplane's, except that their pitch was inverted. These, said Herr von Opel, were not to make the car fly, but to prevent it from flying. The car would go so fast he said that it needed air pressure to clamp it to earth...
...High Princes") toward the Western nations had been maintained for centuries in accordance with the following typical Shogun's proclamation: "So long as the sun warms the earth let no Christian be so bold as to come to Japan. Let all know that if King Philip † himself or even the very God of the Christian contravene this prohibition they shall pay for it with their heads. Let them think no more of us, just as if we were no longer in the world...