Word: outward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is a story to the effect that last year, when the play "Once In a Lifetime" was presented in Los Angeles, Mr. Carl Laemmle, the movie producer, was induced to attend a performance. To the considerable astonishment of his companions, he sat through the entire action without any outward reaction at all, but applauded vigorously at the final curtain. On the way out someone commented that the producer had not laughed once during the evening. Mr. Laemmle is said to have exclaimed. "Laugh! Should I laugh at something I've been weeping over for twenty years...
Pilot P. G. Stevens glanced aft at the four passengers in his Buhl Airsedan over Santa Ana, Calif, one day last week, then gave a lever a yank. Instantly steel arms gripped the front pair of passengers. A door alongside each flipped outward. The steel arms swung each passenger, chair & all, to the end of a davit clear of the ship. Automatic trips released the chairs and down they dropped, dragging after them parachutes which had been stowed into the bottom of the fuselage. Three seconds later the pilot yanked again and the other two passengers were swung...
...gentility, the Stevenses were faithful once again. With meticulous detail Author Sherriff recounts their departure from London, the thrilling railway journey, their stay in Bognor. Nothing happens except that for two weeks they all breathe free. Their mutual affection, having survived the cooping of their poor city life, turns outward to the world at large. Mr. Stevens meets old cronies at the pub; Dick has an inspiration to become an architect; Mary does a little sparking on the sly. After their breath of fresh air they return to London, to be again submerged...
...large, manifested a strong nationalist spirit as opposed to the internationalism of the times. For months President Hoover has been watching Europe intently, offering it a helping hand while Senators and Congressmen have been at home among their people, their eyes turned inward on the U. S., not outward on the world. They know, perhaps better than the man in the White House, what citizens are saying, thinking, feeling. Now back in the world atmosphere of Washington, their words and deeds, right or wrong, were taken to reflect the mass opinion of the nation...
Among astronautical problems: fuel perfection; discovery of an alloy light enough for flight yet strong enough to withstand the tremendous outward pressure above the atmosphere; discovery of alloys which will hold their strength at the terrific heat of explosion and the terrific cold of liquid gases; pumping fuel for combustion; steering & braking; stability; protection of ship and occupants against stratospheric conditions...