Word: skid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first of the two Riley brothers who guarded the sanctuary for Technology during the evening. Before the Engineers could recover, the second forward line, just inserted into the fray, worked the puck down the rink, and W. D. Wetmore '30 took a pass from G. C. Holbrook '30 to skid the puck into the net again. For five minutes the Harvard marksmen lost the range, but as the timer's watch showed nine minutes and 27 seconds gone, Captain J. P. Chase '28 dashed away from the field to tally, and 16 seconds later the Crimson leader poked in another...
...speed between 50 and 90 miles per hour, depending on their weight. The pilot watches his tachometre to make sure that the engine is making a sufficient number of revolutions per minute.* Then he pushes the joy stick forward slightly to get the plane's tail skid off the ground, pulls it backward and the plane rises. Green pilots sometimes try to elevate a low-powered plane too abruptly. The result is that the engine cannot lift the plane at the angle of the elevator. The plane loses flying speed, slips downward, is likely to crash. A passenger...
...fails to detect a wind that is causing his plane to drift sideways. This may account for a wrecked landing-gear, a crumpled wing. This is why planes, like pitching ducks, land directly into the wind whenever possible. A perfect landing is when the two wheels and the tail-skid touch the ground in unison...
...Ullman's poor throw in the ninth and a missed grounder in the second stanza by R. C. Sullivan '28, who shared the shortstop's duties with J. P. Chase '28, were the only mistakes in an exhibition of clean, flawless fielding. Sullivan allowed Jenkins's hard grounder to skid through his legs, but as his glove did not touch the horsehide, he was not charged with an error...
...Doubtless this seeming paradox is explicable by the fact that few experienced motorists drive far over wet roads without snapping anti-skid chains on their tires. *The statistics did not warrant this admonition, showing less than 1% of cases where the driver was intoxicated...