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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sprinting & Horsepower. Sprinters expend 13 horsepower of chemical energy and 3 horsepower of mechanical energy. Rochester's Wallace Osgood Fenn found. They lose some energy because when their feet touch the ground they push themselves back slightly. Wind resistance absorbs some of their energy...
Rages. Injuries to the base of the brain cause quick rages, found Oxford's J. F. Fulton and F. D. Ingraham...
...money. And one night the customers at the restaurant exchanged obscene impressions. Now he knew he must be very distasteful to her since, definitely a prostitute, she had turned down only himself. He climbed into her bedroom after midnight, but she was sleeping elsewhere. In the morning he found her, took her to the river bank, twisted her arm to make her admit he disgusted her. She began screaming shrilly in terror and in equal terror he began beating her over the face with a convenient club. In his flight he joyfully murdered an oldster who seemed to be watching...
...many of the cities it was reported that the lack of co-operation from the parents of minors found in the halls was the greatest handicap confronting the supervisors . . . due sometimes to ignorance of what their children were doing, sometimes to indifference, and sometimes to the old belief that young people must sow their wild oats...
...Spokane-New York-Spokane shuttle is 7,200 miles. The air distance traveled by the Sun God was approximately 10,000 miles. The added distance resulted from the pilots having to detour some bad weather spots. "At Rock Springs in the heart of the Rocky Mountains we found it necessary to fly between ten and twelve thousand feet. . . . Bad air at North Platte made refueling almost impossible. . . . Over the Allegheny Mountains we got the customary storms. We would start to fly west and get a storm signal. We would then start back for New York and get storm signals...