Word: spacing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...empty space of the fusilage provides quite a large degree of buoyancy, till the water leaks through the cloth covering. To test the flotation of one of the huge air liners, the British Air Ministry has determined on an interesting experiment. One of its less valuable planes will be put into flying condition, loaded with a weight equivalent to that of fuel, pilot and eight passengers and set adrift in the sea off Felixstone. The probabilities are that the plane will float for hours, thus reassuring the public that nothing but a few hours' discomfort would follow a plunge...
...meeting in Sanders Theatre will take place at 3.30 o'clock. Seats for official guests only will be reserved by ticket. Space in the body of the Theatre will be reserved without tickets from 2.45 to 3.10 o'clock for officers of instruction and administration other than those expressly delegated to represent for several Faculties and Departments in the Procession. All the rest of the Theatre will be reserved without tickets for Alumni of the University from 2.45 to 3.10 o'clock, after which the members of families of officers of the University and the public, will be admitted...
Owing to the limitation of space on the platform of Sanders Theatre, the participation of the members of Faculties in the Procession will be limited to delegations from the several Faculties and to other officers of the University individually invited. All persons thus invited are requested to find their appropriate stations in the dining hall of Memorial Hall, and to arrive in time to take their positions promptly when the Order of Procession is called at 3.15 o'clock. Academic costume may be worn by officers of the University and by guests from other colleges and universities...
...medium of a careful selection of authenticated pictures and cartoons. The book is an example of the modern movement to teach general history by means of the visual appeal. It is an exceptionally valuable "pictorial review" of the story of our people. The illustrations occupy more than half the space and at first sight appear to be the more important part of the work, but the text, admirably and tersely expressed, is an indispensible supplement. The manner of organization of the pictures in such a fashion that they, in themselves, unfold a coherent, though sketchy, story of the American people...
...Corporal C. Eugene Conrad entered an airplane piloted by Lieut. Leland S. Andrews, was lifted to a height of 21,500 feet (almost four miles). His fingers so numb with cold that his hands had to be placed on the rip cord of his parachute, Corporal Conrad stepped into space. Eight seconds after he stepped, he pulled the rip cord. Twenty-four minutes and 52 seconds later he landed in an alley in the exclusive residential section of San Antonio, was surrounded by "1,000 cheering school children." Corporal Conrad had made a world's record jump both...