Word: helmsman
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...vertical current rammed the ship down. . . . Suddenly speeded engines pulled her tail lower. ... A green helmsman at the elevator controls let her nose rise too high, causing a stall. . . . Jammed elevators. . . . Damaged stabilizer. . . . Broken gas cells...
...from south to northwest. Said Commander Wiley: "Although my own inclination was to go west, he had as much or more information than I and his judgment was just as good as mine. . . ." Later, however, when the ship was heading east at sea, Captain McCord told him that a helmsman had misunderstood one of his orders. Instead of changing course by fifteen degrees, he had changed by fifty. Sometime thereafter the course was changed to west...
...noteworthy in their class. The "Pieta " of Gwendolen Raverat, the gift of H. S. Bowers '00. is similar to the paintings of the Avignon school in its deliberate stylization. "The Pilot," a linoleum cut by Marion Richardson, an American contemporary, is a portrayal of Christ as a helmsman...
...close to the Cape Ann rocks, it skirmished into the lead to win. The losers, unwilling to give up another day's fishing, conceded to Capt. Manuel Domingos of the Progress the $2,150 prize money, the Prentiss Trophy, one leg on the Davis Trophy. The stalwart, suntanned helmsman of the Progress: Prof. George Owen of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, saltwater friend of the Secretary of the Navy, father of Harvard's famed all-round athlete (George Owen...
...Dornier, usually self-contained and impassive, stood nervously on the lake shore, watch in hand. He gave a signal. The crew of 16 took their posts, the twelve motors thundered. The enormous flying boat slid out with ponderous ease across the glassy water after taxiing about for practice, the helmsman circled back for another signal, opened the throttles wide. After a run of 30 seconds, the gigantic ship lifted clear of the lake and flew. Dr. Dornier bursting with excitement and relief, said: "It is going to be a wonderful flying machine." He is looking for a buyer...