Word: spans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...large osteopathic practice in & around Cambridge, Mass., which he generously shares with one or two beginners. Mrs. Wilson keeps the office spick & span as her own apartment which is adjacent. Their English bull terrier, Judy, 52, regularly summons them to dinner. Judy also "plays the piano." No one may smoke in Dr. Wilson's office. As long as he is there he works "like the devil" until he gets "the jitters," which happens every month or so. Then he and his wife hie off to some quiet place where he can sleep, walk and read "something with no relation...
...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-powered ARUP carrying unprecedented loads at undreamed-of speeds, even into the stratosphere...
...after another these machines dove into Lake Garda, carrying to death in turn the crack pilots of the high speed school-Monti, Bellini, Dal Molin. Neri-until last month when Agello triumphed. British airmen maintain that the Macchi's phenomenal speed is due to a reduced wing span which makes its landing speed more than two miles a minute, a lower safety factor than is permitted in Great Britain. The S. B.-Rolls-Royce ship which won the last Schneider Trophy for Great Britain landed at about 90 m. p. h. At Orbetello, 60 mi. from Rome, 100 aviators...
Still swings the murderer, bent of knees In a slightly strained repose, Nor feels the faint hand of the breeze: He now with Solomon all things knows: That, lastly, breath is to a man But to want and fret a span...
...events occurred in Manhattan last week which poignantly stressed the short span of modern medicine, 1) Dr. Harvey Gushing spoke about the pituitary gland before the Harvey Society at the Academy of Medicine. 2) New York University promoted Dr. William Hallock Park to the chair of preventive medicine...