Word: overhauls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Candidates and members will dismantle the plane this winter and overhaul it. The wings and body will probably be stored in the hangar at the airport, and the engine brought to Cambridge and placed in the Gordon-McKay Laboratory...
...third crew event of the Henley Regatta, the University boat placed behind Yale and Princeton in a very close contest. The Harvard, oarsmen, rowing a lower stroke than their rivals for most of the distance, sprinted too late and, could not overhaul the leaders in the last furlong. The Eli shell nosed out the Princeton entry by ten feet with the Crimson following a length and a quarter behind. The time was seven minutes and six seconds...
...Palos went down river to Shanghai early last spring for overhaul and since then has never gotten further up river than Ichang, although she has been badly needed on the upper stretch, and has made several attempts. Chungking residents have a popular ditty to the tune of "Parlez-vous," the two essential lines of which...
...likely that the handkerchief dealers will decree a fresh supply of linen every two weeks. The toothbrush vendors will set Monday aside as the day to overhaul the masticators. So many apple weeks, good books, anti-Red, prohibition, old clothes, old home, and old bottles weeks have been added to the calendar of the suffering citizen, that a few more will be distinctly a propos: a non-advertising week, a non-convention year, a death-to-Arrow-collar-men week, and unlimited-cuts week-all these and more, spelled out in capitals, would en it on the year, and make...
From Washington they flew to Dayton, where mechanics worked all night in relays to overhaul the planes. A new engine was installed in Wade's plane, the Boston II. Repaired, they flew on to Chicago, where once more they rested...