Word: long
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Asked whether he tired of performing one role for so long a time as he has played Cyrano. Mr. Hampden replied, "Fortunately the 625 odd presentations of Rostand's play that I have acted in have not been in succession. They are actually spaced over six seasons, 250 being my record for consecutive performances of Cyrano, and then I was forced to interrupt that string because of an injury resulting from my fall from a balcony...
...Anne Boleyn, young, bold, bright-faced, ambitious. Her sister had been a mistress of Henry's. No mistress would she be. Heavy-breathing Henry wrote long love letters to her with hearts drawn on them. She bore Elizabeth. He said she was adulterous, chopped off her head...
...ordinary airplane rises at too sharp an angle with the ground, air, which must stream sucking over the wings to support them, cannot reach enough wing surface to do its work. Consequently the plane loses flying speed. It stalls. Then it drops. The Handley Page wing contains a long narrow auxiliary wing set in its forward edge. When the main wing reaches the stalling angle, the auxiliary flaps up and suddenly presents a new surface to the wind. The wind also rushes through the space between the auxiliary and main wings. The result is that the plane is simultaneously supported...
...Frederick Handley Page invented his slot interceptor, last week announced as effectively tested. The interceptor is a second long narrow wing set just back of the slot at the main wing front. Like the auxiliary wing in front of it, it normally lies within the main wing surface. The interceptor is connected by bars to the aileron of its wing...
Captain B. H. Whitbeck '29 defeated Hayes, star Amherst No. 1 man, in straight sets. In the doubles Arthur Ingraham Jr. '30 and E. B. Ward '30 finished a long battle to defeat Hayes and Bowditch...