Word: slides
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washingtonians expected great things from him. But in four months he has proved himself a shrewd and aggressive naval chief who runs the department instead of letting the admirals run it. A good mixer, he has known most of them by their first names for years. His pince-nez slide down his long snipe nose. He wears coats two sizes too big. His felt hat is generally cocked at a raffish angle. For weekends he goes off on a destroyer to sniff salt air or visits the Hoover camp on the Rapidan, now in charge of marines. In his office...
...some years past. Instead of bringing on a feeling of penitence, which is presumably what was expected, the effect of the old policy was to make the primrose path to everlasting probation even more inviting than it is ordinarily. Placed in a more normal environment, the probationed men may slide into habits of study which would be, in Shepherd, for example, quite unfeasible. The only legitimate regrets are that this reform was not effected sooner, and that it finally came, not because of its advisability, but because of its expediency, Shepherd having been threatened with condemnation as a fire hazard...
...Villard, exists precariously, and even so challenging a publication as the New Republic must rely largely upon endowment for its support. Polity is less sensational, farther removed from the meretricious mens Americans which finds its nourishment in such journals as the successful Time and leaves the American Mercury to slide into the quiet tenor of bankruptcy. Perhaps Polity can afford the limitation on popularity which its mild and legal tone must impose. It has, at any rate, begun bravely, and were its book reviews to be elevated to the high level of its featured articles, it would have earned...
...idea of a complete flying wing, experimenting with models affixed to the front or top of his automobile. A high-school teacher of mechanics helped him build a wind tunnel, and last year he picked up Raoul Joseph Hoffman, an Austrian engineer who came through South Bend peddling slide rules. Together they built the ARUP which is simply a parabolic wing of 19-ft. span with fuselage & engine inserted in the middle. Dr. Snyder claims for his ARUP higher speed, slower landing, greater lift, greater safety than those of a conventional airplane of equivalent power. He imagines a big, high...
...Local men hazard diverse opinions. One supposes that coal beds deep within Carbon Mountain have ignited, generating gas which is bursting the mountain apart and forming cavities into which the mountain collapses. For evidence the burning-coal theorists point to a gas-like hissing which often accompanies a rock slide, to the sulfurous smell, and to pieces of shale charred red and yellow. On the other hand. Dr. S. Boyd Calkins, science teacher in the Durango high school, points to the earthy effusions which last week oozed from Carbon's cracks. These outpourings, he reasons, rose from, depths...