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Word: nosing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course, one reed fibrillates faster than the other. The closer the plane is to the beacon, the more intense the vibration. 2) Artificial horizon showed instantly at what angle the plane was flying in relation to the ground, whether and how the wings were tilted, whether the nose was up, down or level, and to what degree. 3) Barometric altimeter showed to within a very few feet how far above the ground of a particular field, in this case Mitchel Field, the plane was at all times. Because the action of this altimeter depends upon barometric pressure, a variable factor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Blind Flying Accomplished | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

...Foroughi has a bushy black beard, it is none of your confounded business. Did I or any other Persian ever tell you that you look like a monkey; no, because we do not care how you look. Did we ever say that your ex-president has a hooklike nose, or that your ambassador to Great Britain is usually conspicuous by his nose? No, that is none of our business; these matters though small, yet they create an international ill-feeling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 30, 1929 | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

...explained King Mihai's former schoolmate, "he was always hitting us. And so we decided that King or no King we would hit him back. And so we hit him on the nose and then they stopped the school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Schoolmates | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

Last week the National City Bank acquired another title of magnitude, the ultimate title, in fact, of "biggest in the world." Its merger with the Corn Exchange Bank Trust Co. swelled its resources to $2,386,066,401, a total sufficient to nose out the former "biggest," London's Midland Bank, Ltd., by a bare 83 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Biggest | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

Tandem-Wing Monoplane. While Giuseppe H. Bellanca, Italian, was designing a monoplane with elevators so large that they virtually formed a second rear wing, George Fernic, tousle-haired Rumanian, was building a monoplane with a second true wing set at its nose. His theory was that the auxiliary wing would prevent stalling. Last week at Roosevelt Field, L. I., Designer Fernic flew his machine successfully, although he could gain only 700 feet altitude. On a second trial he ran it into a wire fence, partially wrecked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flights & Flyers: Sep. 23, 1929 | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

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