Word: seat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Radcliffe's Student Council took the first step yesterday towards enlargement in size and scope by unanimously approving a non-voting seat for the 'Cliffe Yearbook and reaffirming Radio Radcliffe's vote. NSA will continue to hold two votes...
...suggestion that the vice-chairman of the Board of Club Presidents be given a Council seat was postponed on the argument that the Vice-President of the Student-Government is chairman of the club board and has a vote...
Escape chutes and ejection seats are "safe" for speeds up to 500 m.p.h., but no one thinks that they will be used much at higher speeds. When the average-sized pilot, crouched in his seat, enters a 500 m.p.h. airstream, his body is hit (according to Navy calculations) by a pressure blow of 2,813 lbs. At 600 m.p.h., he gets a blow...
...design, putting the cockpit in the rear just ahead of the tail surfaces (see drawing). When the pilot wanted to bail out, he would detach the whole tail-and-cockpit. The plane would fly on, while the tail cone pulled a parachute from behind the pilot's seat. When it had slowed the cockpit to a safe speed, the pilot could bail out with his own parachute...
...microphones was the well-known Hibernian patriot, Henry Cabot Lodge, who told his rapt audience that Al Smith's entire family was voting for Dewey and Warren. Lodge then had several nice words for Senator Saltonstall, Governor Bradford and Mr. Weeks. On the way back to his seat, he also said that Joe Martin was a very fine fellow...