Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...WIND, SAND AND STARS-Anfolne de Saint Exupéry - Reynal & Hitchcock...
Swing. In small, low-ceiled, table-touching spots where there is hardly room enough to swing a cat, the "cats" swing the room late and loud. Headquarters for swing is Manhattan's sand Street with its solid block of night spots (during speakeasy days, an irate 5 2nd Street householder defensively posted a sign reading "Private House"). On 52nd Street is The Onyx Club, Swing's self-styled "cradle," where Crooner Maxine Sullivan hops things up; The Famous Door, where Trumpeter Louis Prima lays siege to the eardrums; Jack White's 18 Club, which goes...
Dedicated during the day by NACA's scholarly Dr. Edward P. Warner were two new wind tunnels which are now in operation. In both, NACA engineers work under a pressure of several atmospheres, like sand hogs or divers have to be decompressed before going home at night. In one, studies can be made on fixed models of 19-ft. wingspread in winds of more than 250 m.p.h. In the other a model can be flown as in free air, operated by remote control from a tunnel cockpit. Control is achieved through fine wires to electromagnets in the ship...
...these tracks in the sand did not make themselves. Much of the blame can justly be eased onto the feeble and barren instruction which the University frequently offers. Too many professors and instructors are--what is worse than incapable--disinterested in students and unwilling to help solve their problems. Too many courses are simply a chaos of information, disconnected and illogical, which only extraordinary minds can organize. Unusual minds can; others are forced across Massachusetts Avenue...
Played under practically the same rules, indoor polo differs from outdoor polo in five major respects: three players instead of four; four chukkers instead of eight; smaller field; playing surface of clay, sand and shavings; leather-covered rubber ball instead of a wooden ball...