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...chief control on an airplane is the "joy stick," regulating the ailerons on the wings and the elevator on the tail. Stand a pencil vertically on a table. Affix a piece of cardboard, parallel with the table, to the upper end of the pencil. Slant the pencil at any angle in any direction, keeping its lower end on the table. Imagine that the pencil is the joy stick, the table is the ground, the cardboard is the airplane. Thus, can be seen the approximate positions of a flying ship as determined by manipulating the joy stick. A pilot must constantly...
Making rich men and poor men think alike was henceforth his great aim, which he pursued with a lively, pioneering use of the terms, "team work," "co-operation," "the other fellow's slant." Banal enough on other tongues, these terms apparently possessed charm when rolled forth with lively persistence by a member of the St. Andrews and Burns Societies. Unlike most go-betweens, Editor Forbes escaped being crushed; was instead raised on high by opposing pressures...
...Thomas Marshall, fisherman, looked up from nets he was tending in the middle of the English Channel and squinted off over five miles of tossing grey water. Aye, there could be no doubt of it, she was coming down, on a long slant like a tired gull. It was too far off to see a splash, but Thomas Marshall had trawled the English Channel long enough to know a London-to-Paris airliner when he saw one. He did not hesitate. Rather than delay to haul in his nets, he bade his crew hack them free and pointed his smack...
...Pennsylvania, as is well-known, immense sums were spent in the last primary by the Candidates, although it is of interest to note that the greatest sum expended failed to obtain the election. In Illinois a somewhat different slant was given to the matter, since the expenses of the two opposing candidates came from the same source, that is, the so-called erection interests. In this way, whoever won the election, the traction interests, so to speak, came...
...single plane of two-dimensional Flatland, the inhabitants can, of course, see each other (and all things) only as straight lines. Fortunately, however, every Flatland creature has luminous edges; and there is chronic fog in Flatland, through the obscurity of which the slant of lines is quite apparent and a Figure's angles and shape can be inferred without feeling all his sides'. The Flatland women are mere straight lines, like needles. Hence they are brainless; hence also dangerous, for they would puncture a male Figure upon collision. Quaint rules for women result. Society is ranked...