Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Looping is one of the simplest airplane maneuvers. The pilot dives his ship steeply towards the earth and gains tremendous speed. He then turns his elevator or horizontal up, so that the rush of air bears downward on the tail of his plane. Naturally the nose of the ship goes up, the plane climbs, the nose goes lighter and higher and for a brief moment of time the ship is flying upside down, only to dive again and resume its normal attitude. When correctly executed, the loop is seen as a beautiful, smooth curve...
...Field. Almost at Black Gold's neck raced Chilhowee, owned by the Gallaher brothers of Louisville. A nose behind him was E. R. Bradley's Beau Butler, a horse that jumped from tenth place to a near winner in the last quarter of a mile. Had he gone on?or, for that matter, had C. Bruce Head's Altawood gone on? perhaps the result would have been different...
...transmits all the rays of the sunlight, including the ultraviolet and infrared, which are cut out by ordinary glass. Owing to this property it is expected to be of great value to medicine. By it diseased areas of the throat, nose, ears, stomach, hitherto inaccessible cavities, may be subjected to the action of these germicidal rays, as well as to heat. A sun-room made of fused quartz panes would have the same effect as sunlight in the open air. A quartz lamp will give a healthy sunburn...
CYRANO DE BERGERAC? Walter Hampden superbly follows his nose to glory...
...What Senator was jocularly known as 'Moses'??George Franklin Edmunds* of Vermont, because he had a shiny bald head, a wavy gray beard, long nose, and because he often led his party out of the wilderness of defeat...