Word: scale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rumanian-born Henri Coanda, 68, a successful inventor who lives in Paris, designed a primitive turbine-engine plane in 1909 and a scale-model saucer in 1947. But his great contribution to the art of making flying saucers was the principle he discovered in 1937: curving one side of a nozzle will deflect a jet blast to follow the curved side...
...began is unclear; why is plain. The owners of the world's newest, biggest jute mill at Narayanganj, East Pakistan, pampered their imported West Pakistan workers, gave them better jobs and a higher wage scale than the East Pakistan Bengalis. On payday, when the West Paks were lording it over the Bengalis, the atmosphere was tense. According to one version, a West Pakistani fireman reproved a Bengali teastall keeper for allowing the flames to burn too high in his oven. The Bengali took offense, and when a factory watchman intervened, another Bengali stabbed the watchman...
Such a large scale undertaking must not lack administrative handling, and although the Adams House wine tasters have been extremely remiss in bringing the present situation before the eyes of the University, they are the logical group to handle the situation. By changing their standards to stress quantity instead of quality, they could easily devise many more ingenious methods to help the wine growers. The University awaits its leadership in this philanthropic enterprise...
This second course take up elements of civic design as expressed in building groups, open areas, and roads. It will cover a city's influence on the design of residential areas, parks, and social services. Much of its material will be drawn from Harvard's collection of scale models...
After his victory over the mile course Wilde was presented with an eight inch scale model of a singles scull. His winning time was 6:38.2. Last year he covered the championship course in a clocking of 6:35, which was 13 seconds above the University record...