Word: steers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...light on the road, which shifted continually, control of the radiator became a Herculean task. Dr. DeSilva explained that the average driver can stay on the road 64 percent of the time, but some are in the ditch 90 percent of the test. If the car were left to steer itself, it would be in the ditch only 30 percent...
...Starke Meyer returned to racing, continued his experimental Paula series through 1935. His four brothers, Arnold, Chris, Henry (eight-time winner of the N. W. I. Y. A. 350-ft. class with his Dorla) and William have aided him. Chiefly to them is credited the idea of having the steering runner at the front instead of stern so that when the wind lifts the rear end off the ice, the pilot can still steer and so avoid dangerous spins...
Finding an able coxswain is a major problem for most college crew coaches. Coxswains must be strong enough to steer the shell straight, shrewd enough to detect faults in the crew's performance, aggressive enough to correct them, good-natured enough not to mind an occasional ducking for their pains. Until crew-conscious alumni start subsidizing midgets, cox-swains who fill these requirements but still weigh less than 120 Ib. will be scarcer than good halfbacks. Last week in England, crew coaches at Oxford, which hopes on March 24 to win the Boat Race against Cambridge for the first...
Many at Harvard think the root of the trouble lies in the University's system of advisers--faculty members who help Freshmen adjust themselves to college life. An adviser is supposed to steer his Freshman along the right track, whenever necessary sending them to a supervisor for general guidance. If such assistance does not help, Harvard's o cial view is that the student isn't college calibre, and he ought to get out--not go to a tutoring school, cram for a few days or hours, and squeeze through examinations by the aid of his pocketbook...
Secretary Hull said that he had previously obtained assent from the steering committee for the Conference, by a suspension of the rules, to grasp its supreme opportunity of erecting the Pillars of Peace immediately. To observers unfamiliar with the workings of human nature on such occasions, the Conference seemed to rise in a tempest of aspiration toward Peace. At this moment, however, Mr. Oswaldo Aranha, who ordinarily resides in Washington, D. C. and who as the Ambassador of Brazil is a constant professional acquaintance of the Secretary of State, sprang to his feet. His unanswerable argument was that...