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Word: planing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...modern metal airplanes is extremely remote because of sharp points permitting the charge to drain off." According to Secretary Lester Durand Gardner of the Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences, which held its third annual meeting last week in Manhattan, the destructive effect of lightning on an all-metal plane in flight is "unthinkable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: First Strike | 2/11/1935 | See Source »

...Syrian Desert six weeks ago on lightning (TIME, Dec. 31). According to KLM's experts who examined the wreckage, Uiver hit the ground at full flying speed, switches on, throttles open, stabilizer set for cruising, landing gear retracted. The gasoline fire which consumed most of the plane destroyed most of the evidence. But tools and other metal parts untouched by the flames showed marks of extreme local heat and partial melting. And the bodies of six victims found outside the machine, likewise untouched by flames, showed typical electrical burns on all parts in contact with the plane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: First Strike | 2/11/1935 | See Source »

...attempt to preserve an exact average in a particular year must be abandoned; the other method must be employed; the colleges to be made as equally desirable as possible. To a certain extent this has already been done, in that the masters and fellows are on an equally high plane in each unit. Where there are applications based on the hope of individual work with a particular fellow, they will probably even off and should be granted by the committee. But for the other criteria in the students' minds which are not and can not be equalized--such as location...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 2/7/1935 | See Source »

...Witness Koehler fastened a vise to one end of Justice Trenchard's bench, clamped a piece of wood in it and skimmed off a shaving with the plane found in Hauptmann's garage. With a piece of paper and a pencil he made a rubbing of the planed surface as a child reproduces the design of a coin. He then made a similar rubbing of a planed surface on the ladder, showed the jury that the striations on both rubbings were identical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: New Jersey v. Hauptmann (Cont'd) | 2/4/1935 | See Source »

...endless conversationalist, at her best when she takes off in a nonsensical plane of pretense. Her favorite jape is to pose as an abandoned woman who is living in sin with her author-husband, Charles G. ("Ceegee") Norris (Bread, Brass, Salt). This tomfoolery runs on & on, like a Chinese play, with "Kay" Norris ringing all the changes on her alleged state of total depravity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Golden Honeymoon | 1/28/1935 | See Source »

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