Word: hoppered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Carl Cover, Doug las vice president and boss test pilot, "poured the coal" to the DC-5's two 750-horsepower Pratt & Whitney Hornets, the new ship, designed primarily for operation out of short fields on feeder lines, whipped off the field like a barnstormer's pasture-hopper. In the air it showed a high speed of 248 miles an hour, a cruising speed of 203, far better than the conservative Douglas performance estimates. Pleased was Pilot Cover (who is in charge of sales) with other features of the ship; with no wing below them passengers once more...
...nuts. Then, as the nuts pass a tiny aperture, an explosive charge of acetylene and oxygen is shot into each nut. The nut then drops into an ignition chamber where a gas flame ignites the charge. Pop! goes the walnut. Most of the shells drop into one hopper, the meats into another...
...hold forth in morning chapel. But too often aptitude for religious expression and profundity of religious thought do not accompany mere interest in the subject. Approaching the same problem from a different point of view, there are faculty members whose chapel talks are brilliant; Professors Mather, Munn and Hopper are in this category. Because of the supposed necessity for giving time to their less capable colleagues, these men are seldom seen, and the influence they might have in the popularization of chapel is correspondingly weak. But regardless of Faculty etiquette this type, and this type only, should be invited...
...provide the spiritual uplift for which chapel is intended, only the best men from outside and from within the university can be chosen. All cannot be as profound and as stimulating as Dean Matthews, nor as interesting as Professor Hopper. But in proportion as better choices continue to be made, so will the University community, which is always ready to recognize merit as it is to ignore mediocrity, respond with greater chapel attendance...
...County Prison at suburban Holmesburg, Pa. call it: a narrow, thick-walled little brick cell block where fractious inmates are put for "treatment." It holds nine cells, each 8 ft. long, 4 ft. wide, 10 ft. high. In each cell are a small sink with one spigot, a "hopper" (toilet) and six bolts in the wall for cots. Walls & floor are rough concrete, doors sheet steel, with small ventilating holes at the bottom. Three windows and several small roof outlets comprise the ventilation of the building. Across a two-foot corridor from the cells the wall is lined with steal...