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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Danguy went to London as head instructor of the MacPherson gymnasium. Later, he opened his own salle which he conducted for 17 years. In 1908 Danguy became chief instructor at the New York Fencers Club, where he remained until the end of the war. During this time, in 1912, he was coach of the American Olympic team...
...straight course and at a steady speed, the refueling plane maneuvers into position above. When the two planes are in line, at even speed and 15 to 25 feet apart, the upper one drops a rubber hose. As the hose whips about, a man below catches its free end and inserts it into his fuel tank. Thus the two planes are connected by a sort of umbilical cord through which gasoline flows. In the Question Mark experiment, the feed hose would sometimes break loose, the men below would get drenched. But drenching was an incident which did not invalidate this...
...rope. The rope hangs over two vertical, widely spaced arms fixed to the catapult chassis. In the mechanics of catapulting, a plane comes sweeping toward the machine about 20 feet from the ground. From the underside of the fuselage a rope dangles. At the rope's end is a metal hook. As the plane passes over the catapult the hook engages the contraption's rope (held horizontally by the vertical arms) and pulls. That pull releases the spring, which instantly projects the container from the trough at a speed of about 45 miles per hour. Such speed prevents a destructive...
...Significance. By the unhappiness of Hans and Frau Grill, Novelist Edouard attempts to show the end of every peasant-noble union. Too good a psychologist, however, to prevent their becoming live individuals instead of idea-puppets, he succeeds in showing only that the couple were incompatible at times when many another husband or wife would have unearthed the remedy. He also shows how new people, people of money and power, took the place of the old nobility in his country. The social lesson is thus outmoded. If the author were to have lectured in the U. S. on the incompatibility...
...commission went to work, there was no guessing when or where that work would end...