Word: goings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...steel colleagues told him he could run his building as high as he pleased. Their structural steel could stand any strain. The elevator men told him, however, not to go above 150 stories (2,000 feet high), because to travel higher would require too heavy elevator cables and because the cars would be required to travel more than 1,500 feet a minute. Although mine elevators travel faster than that, higher speeds bother the human ear drums, and passengers in commercial buildings would not endure discomfort. At present fastest buildings elevators go 750 feet a minute. So Mr. Kingston drew...
...evening, Warren Stevens ran three times past rows of floodlights that gave the field a blueish tinge to make touchdowns against Hobart. Used successfully in the west for some time, the floodlights proved that many potential gloaters who like to play golf Saturday afternoons will go to night football games. Syracuse 77, Hobart...
...Czechoslovakia." Having left his dog on the sidelines, he began the finals last week in his customary way of drawing Richards, the best volleyer in the world, to the net so that he could win points by passing him. For two sets Richards, pale and imperturbable, saw the ball go by again and again to fall on baselines where he could not reach it and he saw his own apparently ungettable shots come back to him as steadily as though he were playing them off a wall. In the next two sets Richards did what...
...establish him as ferocious, Victorio Mario Campolo, Argentine, stuck his thumb into the eye of English heavyweight Phil Scott in Manhattan. Until then Scott had been winning. Closing his hurt eye, he asked the referee to disqualify Campolo but the latter, misunderstanding his wink, told him indignantly to go on. Through that round, which was the ninth, and one more, Scott continued pushing and shoving sleepy Campolo, effectively enough to win the decision. He must now be considered a rival of Schmeling, Sharkey...
...speed of plane flight (100 m.p.h., usually) a pilot loses his sense of balance. At night or in fog, where he cannot orient himself against ground objects, he flies to one side, his wings tilt, the plane goes up, down or, happily, level. He does not know. His instruments go "hay wire." He is helpless. In terror he may try to guide himself. Generally that is useless. Experienced professional pilots, particularly on the night mail routes, often set their planes at neutral, take their hands off the controls, fold their arms and apathetically wait...