Word: spinnings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...running experimental trolley bus number 8001 around a specially constructed loop in the Charles River Yard. Between runs, this prize possession is kept inside the shed, but at least once an hour, some accredited conductor is allowed to climb into the control seat and take her for a trial spin...
...your world. Authors Nordhoff & Hall, who for the last 16 years have lived in the South Seas as exiles from civilization, write about a hurricane as two having authority. As popularizers of the epic tale of H. M. S. Bounty they have learned how to spin a stout melodramatic yarn. Plot of The Hurricane is truer to Hollywood than to life, but the details of its color and setting are firsthand, first-rate...
Right now attention is on fundamentals. Under careful supervision as to the essentials of good rowing, a half-hour spin up the river for each crew makes up the day's work...
Sirs: TIME, until now fair and accurate where Sikorsky Aircraft are concerned, goes into a flat spin when in the Oct. 7 issue under Transport it refers to the Sikorsky Clipper as "Far outmoded by the new Martin Clipper, which has three times as much carrying power." Every schoolboy knows the Martin boat is some 25% larger than the Sikorsky and that carrying power-whatever this may be-cannot vary far from this ratio. The size is not everything. Pan American Airways, for whom both boats were built, has placed goodly orders for Sikorsky Clippers, some of them within...
...spin around the triangular course got going, it seemed their choice was wise. Out into the lead of the five other planes shot Turner, ''polishing pylons" with his usual wizardry. For nine out of the ten laps he apparently had the race won. Suddenly, near the finish, the crowd was stunned to see a thick black plume of smoke belch from his Hornet motor as an oil-line clogged. Out of the race dropped Favorite Turner, managing to land safely in his oil-spattered racer. Into the lead went steady Mister Mulligan to win in the slow time...