Word: ole
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...without protection from motorgas exist at Glasgow and under the Elbe at Hamburg. Two old tunnels under the Thames at London have been equipped with suction-&-exhaust fans. First tunnel to require a new type of ventilation was the 8,463-ft. commuter-used Holland.† For years Engineer Ole Singstad, assisted by the U. S. Bureau of Mines and Illinois and Yale universities, studied to perfect a suitable system. Now air is pumped into a channel under the roadbed, let into the tunnel proper through slots at the curbs, pumped out through a channel above the ceiling. Thus...
Sued. On Aug. 28, Constance Collier, 50, British actress, for $100,000; and on Aug. 29, Capt. Bruce Bairnsfather, 43, famed British-born cartoonist ("The Better 'Ole," "Old Bill"); for divorce; both by Mrs. Bruce Bairnsfather. Charges: Miss Collier alienated Bairnsfather's affections; Bairnsfather wrote a play with Miss Collier, became intimate...
...Flagpole Sitting." Capt. John O. Donaldson and Pilot Ole Oleson planned a flight to test the endurance of planes, not of pilots. At Roosevelt Field, L. I. a Stinson monoplane would be flown by relays of relief pilots sent aboard at intervals by a rope ladder dropped from the refuelling plane. The pilot being relieved would drop to earth with a parachute. Last week Director Gilbert G. Budwig of the aeronautics branch, Department of Commerce, refused to sanction the flight, refused to waive the rule requiring aircraft to remain 300 ft. apart in the air. He said...
...Ole Singstad, chief engineer and superintendent of the Holland Tunnel, will address a meeting of the Harvard Engineering Society on Friday, March 14 at 7.30 o'clock in 110 Pierce Hall. Members of the University are cordially invited...
...important scenes in which Anna and her father and her lover are before the camera at the same time; the two men face each other at a table and Anna sits or stands between them, stressing the triangle; when Old Man Christie vents his periodic curse on the Ole Davil Sea he usually goes and looks out at the sea, and shakes his fist at it. Anna Christie remains Greta Garbo's picture?a superb individual performance. Her voice is deep and flexible, and her Swedish accent fits naturally into the part. Best shot: Garbo telling why she cannot marry...