Word: inlet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Third race. Lolloping comfortably in the shallow water of the inlet, a porpoise received an appalling thump. It came from the bow of Ellsworth's boat, this time ahead of the others and traveling at nearly 60 m.p.h. The boat leaped into, the air and an official's launch picked up Ellsworth, unhurt except for a cut lip. Tennes, in second place when Ellsworth spilled, heard his spark plugs sputtering on the next lap. He waved to Jean Dupuy who passed him on the last lap and won easily, with his teammate Baron Alain de Rothschild third...
...arrowhead of land between the rivers Test and Itchen six miles up the inlet called Southampton Water, the Port of Southampton points a great trap of docks, like a lobster's claw, toward the sea. With that claw in the past two decades Southampton has snapped up most of Britain's passenger ocean traffic, ended a 19th Century slump. For three centuries Southampton's too shallow basin, where King Canute may have spoken to the tide and whence the Pilgrims' Mayflower sailed, had lain nearly empty. Humiliated as a "decayed town," South ampton was further humiliated...
Officers shouldered their way through the crowd explaining what had happened: on the inlet tube for cooling the turbogenerators with sea water, a 40-lb. mushroom-shaped valve, made of cast iron instead of brass, had jammed, finally burst. A solid jet of water nearly a foot in diameter poured into the hold. The ship was made to list purposely to keep the broken valve near the surface. Over & over the officers repeated there was no danger...
Preliminary studies at the new laboratory, Dean Clifford states, have definitely shown that inlet boxes and ducts commonly used with commercial fans may reduce the capacity of the fan by as much as 50 per cent, and that simple adjustments can result in large savings. Further studies are to consider the effect of air pulsations on fan performance, a subject which is now being considered by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the American Society of Heating and Ventilating Engineers. The performance of axial flow fans is also being studied in detail...
...soon as he made his readings of cosmic rays above Mexico, he dashed for a north-bound train. At Kansas City he said good-by to Mrs. Compton and Alan. They proceded to Chicago & home, he to Winnipeg. He wants to get to Chesterfield Inlet north of Churchill in time to note what the solar eclipse does to cosmic rays near the North Magnetic Pole. In his dash Professor Compton hastened past the U. S. Aerological Station at Ellendale, N. D. Thereby he just missed conjunction with his fellow Nobel Laureate, Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan of California Institute of Technology...