Word: hulled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Into a harbor in the Azores last week sailed the Carlsark, 46 ft. ketch. Above the gleaming hull rose four tanned sailor-men-all from Cornell University. Carl L. Weagant, last year's football manager, of Douglaston, L. I., was the skipper. Said he: "My crew did not suspect my intention of crossing the Atlantic until we were halfway to the Azores, seven days...
...such superspeed been achieved? German engineers answered last week "chiefly by streamlining the Bremen's hull, by fitting her with a unique bulbous bow." Every layman knows that air friction against a raindrop causes it to assume a bulbous foreshape and to taper off behind-this being the form which offers least resistance to the air. With daring originality, the Bremen's designers gave her below the water line somewhat the shape of a falling raindrop; but above the water line her bow ceases to be bulbous, is keen as a bayonet edge. Luxury features of the Bremen...
...Hull, Congressman from the 16th District of Illinois-how he registered on various bills, how he is regarded by unbiased observers so far as legislative ability goes. . . . Your thoro unbiased and courageous reports on national affairs and on individuals lead me to ask whether you can and do furnish to your readers . . . a report on the record of any particular member of Congress. . . . EVERETT M. DIRKSEN
...confused with Illinois' other Congressman Hull - Morton Denison Hull of Chicago, Harvard graduate, lawyer, president of Raymond Concrete Pile Co.; nor with Congress man Cordell Hull, Democrat, of Carthage, Tenn...
Tennessee's Cordell Hull alone harked back to the old Democratic dogma of "tariff for revenue only." The proposed increases he said would cost the country 175 millions per year. His Democratic colleagues, pledged to protection at the Houston convention last year and by their presidential candidate, sat silent...