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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Along the front of the main wing and in front of the rear ailerons, spectators found a tiny curved plane when the machine landed. Automatically extending itself by air pressure on the wing, the enlarged surface grips the air when the plane stalls; props it; forbids the wing dip which precedes the spin...
Together with the National Academy and the American Philosophical Society, it constitutes the greatest aggregation of artists, scientists, and men-of-letters in the United States. The main function of the academy, in addition to maintaining a library of some 30,000 volumes, the distribution of funds for scientific research through its Rockford and Warren committees...
Laylin pointed out that the ability to stand up and answer questions, and to make an intelligent use of the library, were the main benefits to be derived from Law Club work. The cases to be argued are drawn up by the judges of the first courts, subject to the approval of the Board of Student Advisors. The judges are men in the third year of the Law School...
...line-rushing of G. H. Talbot '31 and Captain B. H. Ticknor '31 accounted for most of the Freshman team's many first downs: rushing and kicking were the main articles of the Harvard offense, very little passing being tried...
Soviet Russia, Holland, Austria, Germany, and France have been the main contributors to the data which is to play an important part in the study of industrial aviation, while a complete list of the correspondents includes Greece, Egypt, India, and Chile. Every noteworthy company engaged in practical transportation by air in the two hemispheres has been reached in the search for operating statistics and organization data. In addition to this thorough canvass of aviation corporations, the Business School has written to the American chambers of Commerce in Athens, Brussels, Tokyo, Lisbon, Calcutta, Rio de Janciro, and every other important city...