Word: tandem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Trophy last year without a struggle. But the Italian Air Force has ever since had its eye on the record of 408.8 m.p.h. held by Lieut. George H. Stainforth. To attack that record, the air force developed a Macchi seaplane powered by two Fiat 1,500 h.p. engines in tandem. To fly it. Air Minister Italo Balbo delegated a new pilot named Neri, a minuscule man whose exploits since he joined the force a short time ago earned him the nickname "Death Cheat...
...those who wonder why Pilot Hinkler suddenly popped out of his long obscurity to hop oceans, Editor Grey reveals a story: Few years ago Hinkler financed the building of a new small tandem-engined amphibian named the "Ibis," with funds made from his Australia flight. Unable to interest British capital he came to the U. S. in 1930. found capital even scarcer. Then a plan to make money, or attract backers, by a spectacular flight in a Lockheed fell through. Finally he drew from his small balance of life savings, bought the Puss Moth in Canada, got enough odd jobs...
...believed to be capable of achieving 400 m.p.h. In external design, they resemble the planes which won the Cup for England in 1929. The Italian planes, Macchi-designed, are intended to do better than 400 m.p.h.; each has two 1,500 h.p. Fiat motors, two propellers set in tandem. About the French planes, little is known except that they have been reported as surpassing 400 m.p.h. in secret trials. A British victory this year would give England permanent possession of the Schneider...
...good old days of horse there was all the difference in the world between driving a span and driving tandem. Until the "Annex", growing into Radcliffe, came into existence, Harvard was on a strictly one-horse basis, with no necessity of choosing between the two methods of "hitching up." From the entrance of girls upon the educational scene it adopted the tandem plan, and, except for the Graduate School of Education, has clung to it with a masculine tenacity. Now it is announced that the women students in the Summer School of this year of grace are to be housed...
...tandem method, be it noted, is still in effect, and co-education at Harvard will remain where it has long stood. This should be a comforting thought to those who will doubtless wag their heads in sadness over the spectacle of girls lounging on the door-steps of Holworthy, or the sound of feminine voices attempting a raucous "Rinchart" only to produce a penetrating "Mary Roberts." Alumni Bulletin...