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...considerably lower than the sound made by large jet engines now in operation; in effect, it will cut in half the noise audible to those on the ground. Under the new limits, the jet noise should be no louder than that heard by a man running a power mower with a four-cycle engine, the FAA promised, and only a quarter to a half as loud as a "typical rock-'n'-roll band...
Marinaro was taken out of action then, but Harvard was beaten. With four minutes remaining, the Cornell substitutes began an 80-yard drive, and Arthur threw 14 yards to sophomore Ron Mower for the final touchdown. There were 10 seconds left...
there are a standard clutch, a brake and an accelerator, a steering wheel and a two-speed forward, neutral and re verse gearshift. Power is supplied by a 12-h.p. lawn-mower engine that runs two hours on a gallon...
...complexity of a Herzog. Roth sums it all up in my favorite image from his first novel, Letting Go (1962), when one sunny day the middle-aged Fay Silberman "goes outside their place in South Orange and her husband is being driven all over the lawn in their power mower. He's dead in his seat, . . . a horrible thing. He crashed into a tree with that damn machine." Yup, having swallowed the American dream whole, Roth's Jews--like so many minorities before them--cough themselves to death as the hidden bones lodge in their throats...
...residents of Mower A were originally informed of the flooding by Dwight D. Miller, senior Adviser of the North Yard, who wrote to each of them, "I am sorry you have to return from vacation to the inconvenience and mess resulting form the water damage...in your room...