Word: stubs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great one recalled other excursions with the Green Dragon. . . . He gnawed his cigar stub meditatively...
...dirigible before it is hauled out of the Goodyear-Zeppelin dock for trial flights in July. The hauling will not be done by a ground crew of several hundred men. At Akron is being completed a mobile mooring mast, 76 ft. high, modeled somewhat after the tractor-hauled stub mast developed last year at Lakehurst. The new mast is self-propelled by a 225-h. p. gasoline engine which operates a generator and dynamo. Power is transmitted to caterpillar tractor "feet" at the bases of the mast's tripod legs. Two of the feet are motorized; the third...
...Machine. An autogiro has a fuselage and tail surfaces like that of the conventional airplane; also it has the usual motor & propeller in its nose, and uncommonly wide landing gear. But in place of a wing is an abortive stub with upturned tips, affixed as on a low-wing monoplane, to provide lateral stability, to carry the ailerons and to provide a mounting for the undercarriage. The real supporting surfaces (i. e. wings) are embodied in four great rotating blades, or vanes, affixed to an upright tripod. It is this rotor that gives the ship its windmill appearance and that...
Senator Walsh, the Senate's most famed and feared inquisitor, warned him he was risking the fate of Oilman Harry Sinclair, who went to prison for contempt of the Senate. But the Bishop contended stub bornly, sometimes waving his crutch in anger, that this Committee had no authority to expose anyone's political activities. He read aloud Supreme Court utterances which, he said, denied all committees the right to make "fruitless inquiries into citizens' personal affairs." He protested: ''This appears to me to be an effort to attack me and to impair my influence exactly...
Beard In Hoboken, long-bearded Kupper Bier, 109, died of pneumonia plus the shock of burns sustained in a beard-fire which sprang up when he lit a cigar stub...