Word: trip
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Branting became a Socialist in his 21st year, after a trip abroad. Despite many obstacles, such as imprisonment and fines, he was undaunted in his efforts for Socialism, as his three tenures of the premiership so well show...
...trip was not an unqualified success. But there are still undeveloped possibilities in the rotor principle ("TIME, Dec. 8). The greatest propelling force is obtained when the circumferential speed of the revolving towers is about 3½ times as great as the speed of the wind. The Buckau, whose revolving towers are about ten feet in diameter with a possible speed of 150 revolutions per minute can, therefore, function most efficiently in winds up to 15 miles an hour. By building rotor-ships with towers of greater diameter and greater speed of revolution, it should be possible to "sail" efficiently...
With the Shenandoah laid up for lack of helium, the U. S. Navy is using the Los Angeles for systematic flights, designed to extract all possible information for the commercial exploitation of zeppelins. A round-trip from Lakehurst to the Bermudas last week was but one of a series of carefully planned experiments. It was interesting because, for the first time in U. S. history, mail to foreign countries was carried by air. A brief announcement by the Post-Office Department only a day or two before the Los Angeles sailed brought 2,200 letters, 138 postcards and some registered...
...approximately 60 miles an hour, with only four of her five engines running. Her action was steady and even, without vibration, giving passengers the sensation of riding in a Pullman car over a fabulously smooth roadbed. Admiral Moffett seated himself in the passenger car and stayed there. "On a trip to Bermuda," said he, "one should take it easy, for everyone goes there for a vacation. However, I am fortunate enough to be on this ship and will make the trip probably in twelve hours and can get back to Washington Sunday night, having lost only...
...when some of Herr Engel's cabbages that he was raising for the government were thrown at him. The case was brought into court but nothing was done. The truck-driver, it seems, has borne the grudge and having read in the CRIMSON about Herr Engel's proposed trip to Germany, resolved that his enemy should not escape unseathed...