Word: planing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most bus lines had quit cold. Air lines put all available planes into service, worked overtime flying passengers, mail and freight between Newark and Pittsburgh. One TWA plane carried nearly a ton of rubber boots, another some 5,000 telegrams. But even airplanes were forced to quit at night when electric power failures put airport lights and radio beacons out of commission...
...Berlin, Adolf Hitler closeted himself with Joachim von Ribbentrop and Foreign Minister von Neurath, stewed over the White Paper most of a day and a night. Next afternoon von Ribbentrop and his aides appeared at Templehof Airport with a locked briefcase, boarded a plane, landed at dusk in London, where a "No!" but not a flat refusal to negotiate was expected to come out of the briefcase. It was understood that the German counterproposals would be amplified "orally...
...case it interests you the word "gimbals" (always plural) is derived from the old French "gemel" meaning a twin, and they may be defined "as two brass rings, which move within each other, each perpendicularly to its plane...
...first place to apply remedial measures is in Sociology A. If there is a desire to make this course more popular than ever and more valuable to embyro concentrators, it would be well if it climbed down from its lofty theoretical plane. As an introductory course it should survey the many fields of sociology, and the material should be illustrated by contemporary applications and be related, as far as possible, to the individual. Then the prospective concentrator would find his taste whetted, without having philosophical vagaries float over his head so early in his career. Secondly, the theoretical aspects largely...
...circumstances. It is the dead of Canadian winter. Wires have broken down. The village of Moosetown is cut off from the world. There is almost no serum left. The doctor's nephew, summoned by one of the doctor's lumberman patients with a homemade radio, arrives by plane with...