Word: outer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feet per minute (normal airline descent rate 300 f.p.m.), the passengers' masks were piped to a mixture of 20% oxygen, 80% helium and they experienced no ear pains. Passengers were told that ear plugging was due to failure of the ears to equalize inner and outer pressure in descent, that highly diffusible helium spreads more swiftly than air through the passages from nose to ears, keeps pressure reasonably even...
...through the windshield. It revolves so fast (2,500 r.p.m.) that it does not obstruct vision, scrubs glass many times faster than a slow-moving automobile wiper. To help it rub away ice, a melting mixture of glycerin and alcohol is fed through holes in the blade to the outer surface of the windshield. Retail cost, installed in a Douglas...
Rodrigner first appeared at President Conant's outer office last Thursday, where he expounded his plan for dropping all athletics in favor of an intensive program of diaphragm study. He was shunted from the Conant office to Dr. Arlie V. Bock, and from there to Clarence B. Van Wyck, secretary of the department of physical education. Finally he was allowed to exhale before physical education instructor David C. Hyde. "Shoving the buck, that's what it was," raged the professor...
...Sanitation of the ship will be accomplished through the medium of an air-lock in which refuse will be deposited. Upon removing the outer cover the air remaining in the lock will drive the refuse away from the ship...
...Concord, N. C., a lodge of the Loyal Order of Moose announced its officers for 1939: Past Dictator, J. O. Moose Sr.; Dictator, Dewey W. Moose; Vice-Dictator, John D. Moose; Prelate, Frank H. Moose; Secretary, Thomas L. Moose; Treasurer, J. O. Moose Jr.; Outer Guard, Harry B. Moose; Inner Guard, Lester C. Moose; Trustees, Wyatt Moose and Frank R. Moose...