Word: pedaling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...disappointment to the visiting English scholboys to find that their shoes, after a night out, appeared with the dullness that accompanies such sorties on the morning after, when they recaptured them from their doorsills in the corridors of McKinlock. Pushed to no emulation of the native pedal refulgence it is true, the visitors still, after their fashion, set their shoes outside the door to be separated from New England soil by some nocturnal worker. And they found the attempt was bootless. It led Mr. Nugee, their leader, to declare that America's boasted efficiency is in jeopardy when a student...
THIS WILL be made up for BY EXTRA length of TROUSERS and extremely WIDE BELL bottoms REACHING to the ground AND thus covering up the NUDE pedal extremities...
Coach Arnold Horween '20 continued his soft pedal policy with the University football squad yesterday. A light dummy scrimmage, together with a session on down-the-field work, constituted the afternoon's workout...
...other important control is the rudder bar, across the cockpit floor, with pedals on each end. To turn the airplane to the right, press on the right pedal; to the left, on the left. Because the whirling of the propeller forces an airplane to the left, an adjustable device has been invented to keep sufficient pressure on the right rudder-pedal to maintain a straight course. But, even with his rudder out of commission, a skilled pilot can manage his plane with his joy stick alone...
...appears a freakish thing, unusual in sound as well as in mechanics. Once in a great while, a man will invent an instrument for the sake of expressing an idea better than it could be expressed in any other medium. Such an invention was the foot pedal that made Chopin's genius possible...