Word: folds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fastest commercial amphibion so far. To speed it up that much, Fairchild's Designer Albert Gassner (oldtime Fokker engineer) had to devise some radical treatment of the pontoons and landing gear, which are what make most amphibions slow. His solution was to make the wheel and wingtip floats fold into the wing, forming a sleek flying-boat when the ship is in flight. The engine, in a stream lined nacelle, is mounted atop the wing. A new wrinkle in amphibion design is an auxiliary 30 h. p. -motor and water propeller to be stowed in the Fairchild...
...Thus the position of the so-called "barbarians" on the average college campus has suffered a paradoxical change. No longer a mere aesthetic menace, a fringe of outcasts condescendingly tolerated, they have come to be regarded as heretics who must be lured or snatched back into the fraternal fold...
What the U. S. principally remembers Rhodes for is the Rhodes Scholarships at Oxford-founded in the pathetic belief that they would cement the bonds of Empire, bring back the strayed U. S. colonies to England's spiritual fold, encourage transatlantic handshaking generally. Reason why there are so many U. S. Rhodes Scholarships, says Biographer Millin: he thought there were still only the original 13 States in the U. S., assigned two to each (in 1929 modified by Parliament to twelve from each of eight U. S. districts...
...Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold...
...Harvey Fergusson, are much the same as they were 300 years ago. There are still 9,000 Pueblo Indians, out of an estimated 25,000 when the Spaniards came. Author Fergusson says the Navajos are the only aboriginal people in the U. S. that have increased, have multiplied five-fold in the last 70 years, now number 30,000. Rio Grande, neither a guidebook nor a history, is something of both, covers in simple anecdotal style a big country, a spacious time. The easy-rambling narrative overtakes and passes historical figure after figure, never stays long with any: Indian Pope...