Word: slightness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next problem for metallurgists is to develop a beryllium alloy which is not brittle. While most aluminum-beryllium alloys will stand tensile (pulling) stresses of around 70,000 Ib. per square inch, they will support only slight bending stresses. Thin sheets of a 70-30 beryllium-alu-minum alloy will break like stiff cardboard...
...imprisonment began a nationwide search for State's Witness MacDonald. The Scripps-Howard San Francisco News offered $500 for his apprehension, advertised: "He is 5 ft. 7 in. tall. . . . His hair ... is probably gray now and thinner. His eyes are black. He had a thin face and a slight body...
Doubt arose whether this record would be officially accepted, not because any wind was blowing but because the racetrack sloped slightly upward, the finish being 30 in. higher than the start. Official objection might be simply that such a track is not absolutely standard, but students of physics found fine food for debate in this proposition: the gravity factor being negligible, it may be that one can run faster up a slight incline since, at each stride, one's feet would strike upsloping ground more quickly than level...
...First recorded experiments with helicopters were made by Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) who made four models equipped with paper propellers. Many later efforts undoubtedly are lost to history, but in 1871 a helicopter of obscure fate was built in France by M. A. Penaud. Experiments were made with slight success in 1905 by the Dane, Ellehammer; in 1906 in France by the Brazilian, Santos-Dumont, in 1907 by M. Bréguet. By 1923 Austria had its Petroczy; Great Britain its Brennan; France its Damblanc, Oemichen and Pescara; Spain its la Cierva. In the U. S., meanwhile, Henry Berliner, Baltimore...
Only $626.04 has been contributed to the Harvard Fund by members of the class of 1930, it was announced last night by L. L. Wadsworth Jr. '30, Class Agent. This amount was given by 130 members of the class. This shows a slight increase over the donations two weeks ago when $514.04 have been given by 122 Seniors. This sum has been credited to the class by H. L. Shattuck '01, treasurer of the University, toward the traditional class gift of $150,000 which is given to the University at the twenty-fifth reunion of the class...