Word: forward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...under similar conditions and quickly discovered the accident's cause: The pilot had taken off without a long enough run, and his plane had stalled because of inadequate speed. They discovered also on the ship with which they experimented that a mechanism had been installed to limit the forward movement of the propeller pitch-control lever. They looked for a similar mechanism in the wreckage of the crashed plane, and found it. The investigators concluded that the crash would probably not have occurred even after the pilot's error, had he got full emergency power from his propeller...
This week, as the heat lessened, the Rightists launched one of the most powerful assaults of the war. Along a ten-mile stretch on the farthest inland portion of the Ebro front, the Rightists hammered their way forward aided by strafing planes, hurled the Leftists back across the river and placed themselves in a position to make the rest of the Leftists' Ebro line untenable. Some 7,000 Leftists were reported killed, wounded or captured. Leftists claimed, however, that their offensive had upset Franco's summer plans and destroyed the possibility of a Franco victory before...
...Hoping, that you will not leave my request without fulfilment, I thank you beforehand on the best, and I am looking forward to your kind reply, which I beg to send me as soon as possible...
...aimed "to clothe rather than astonish," Designer Gabrielle Chanel stole a march on her fellow big shots by opening a full weekend ahead of them, capitalizing on her noted simplicity. Near the centre line of fashion were oldtimer Chanel's wool frocks with ruffles at wrist and neck, forward or "profiled" berets, dark velvet afternoon and dinner dresses, strapless evening gowns...
...radio's automatic switch is a pendulum which swings fore and aft. A heavy jolt swings it forward into its lock, starts the set sending its mechanical cry for help. Operated by storage batteries, the small transmitter repeats its call steadily for two or three days, is audible to radio direction finders in searching rescue planes. If a safe but bumpy landing should put the signal into operation, a red light on his instrument board warns a pilot to release the pendulum switch...