Word: rudder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Quakers crossed the finish line half a length ahead of M.I.T. in a race marred for the Crimson by a snapped rudder wire which forced coxswain George Notter to drag his hands on the starboard side to steer for the last half mile. As a result, the varsity boat finished 18 seconds behind smooth-stroking Penn, whose excellent time...
...varsity race, the Crimson was never much of a threat to early leaders M.I.T., Penn, and Navy and were at least a length behind at Massachusetts Avenue Bridge when the rudder line broke. Navy faded as the race continued and Princeton and Cornell moved ahead...
...left leg were broken. Doctors decided to amputate the leg, but by sheer chance, a new chief surgeon reported for duty and agreed to delay the operation. The leg was saved, but Pride still walks with a limp. Says he: "I have to carry a little left rudder all the time...
Writing in his accustomed idiom of the lower East Side, Odets has made Noah (played by Menasha Skulnik) a symbol of fatalistic determinism while his son, Japheth (played by Mario Alcalde), represents the viewpoint that God wants men to work out their own fate. This clash (played by a rudder for the Ark, which Japheth insists upon and which Noah calls a sinful negation of God's Will) is not a startling new theme, but is well dramatized and well acted...
...tilted forward, the jet stream thrusts it ahead. Similarly, pulling the nose up causes the jets to drive it backward. The Bedstead is strictly an experimental device, has gone only 25 feet in the air. But Bell believes that its new swivel-jet plane, with wings, tail and rudder, can be developed into a practical plane...