Word: fored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Until last fortnight, Death had come to no man in an autogyro. Then LePere et Cie., French autogyro manufacturers, began experiments with a new type of autogyro, lacking auxiliary wings, movable tail surfaces, ailerons, supporting itself solely by its rotor which could be tilted from side to side or fore-&-aft, then locked in the new position. Test Pilot Pierre Martin took it up at the Villacoublay airdrome. He forgot to release the lock on the fore-&-aft control before he left the ground. His autogyro dropped from an altitude of only 150 ft., crashed & killed Pilot Pierre Martin. Hastily...
...reading period looms nearer, the question of the inconvenience caused by the closing of Widener Library in the evening will again come to the fore, with the increased demand on the part of undergraduate students for a restricted number of books. Renewed agitation for the opening of the Library will undoubtedly occur as soon as an appreciable number of students begin to find themselves seriously inconvenienced in the stampede to do the required reading period work...
Singer Smith's selections called for no fancy, bravura vocalizing. He sang two simple folk songs-"The Sidewalks of New York" and "The Bowery"-and so far as his audience was concerned his vocal shortcomings were more than atoned for by his obvious sincerity of purpose. Be fore he had finished he had everyone singing with him, even the traffic cops. Professor John R. Jones, long-haired music-master who usually supervises Mrs. Vanderlip's Infirmary sings, stood in the background, beating orthodox time. But the audience ignored him when Singer Smith grinned a wide grin, waved...
...passing system has been, on the whole, heavy. Two trucks a tractor, and a crew of from 20 to 25 men take over a week to complete this job. So twice a year a sizable sum is drawn from the maintenance coffers. As difficult as it may be fore many of the men in the University to overcome the pleasure of thumping along of a cold, wintry day, resoundingly smacking the boards with their thick leather heels, it seems that this will soon be necessary...
Once again the question of the purpose of secondary public schools comes to the fore with the recent statement of Dr. Payson Smith, state commissioner of education, that modern subjects are more essential than "sixteenth century subjects" because they "represent the needs of a modern child in a modern world." Going further, he declared that music, art, manual training, vocational and physical education should be stressed; and that English grammar and composition are far more important than Latin, Greek, or any of the modern languages. Apparently Dr. Smith is speaking in rebuttal of the recent attacks on the "frills...