Word: engineeer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The U.S.S. Tacoma, 20-year-old light cruiser which ran on Blanquilla Reef off Vera Cruz while on duty in Mexican waters (TIME, Jan. 28), was struck by a heavy norther while still aground. Captain Herbert G. Sparrow and 19 men remained aboard trying to float the ship. During the...
The tank in the Newell Boat House is being fitted out with an engine to keep the water in circulation and will be completed this week. The large barge in the Weld Boat House, which has been under construction this winter, is now ready and will be launched as soon...
To many readers the most curiously interesting chapter will be the first, in which we read the history of Holden Chapel. Here again a persistent Harvard trait is illustrated, the practical adaptation of material means to immediate ideal ends. Built on a generous scale for religious purposes within one generation...
Alcohol has a new world to conquer. Admiral Moffett, Chief of the U. S. Bureau of Aeronautics, stated in his annual report to Secretary Denby that new airplane engine fuels composed of alcohol and gasoline show a possible reduction in consumption of 25%. Such a reduction means a great increase...
Dec. 17, 1923 marked the 20th anniversary of the airplane. On the same day of the year 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright, sons of a clergyman of Dayton, O., in a curious boxlike machine made largely of wood, wire and canvas, propelled by a small gasoline engine, rose from a...