Word: twins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Like their colleagues overseas and on the same day, airship pilots of the U. S. Army Air Service had their troubles with a huge gas bag, in this case the TC-3, a nonrigid twin-motored airship of only 200,000 cu. ft., scarcely one-tenth the volume of the R-33. Sailing from Scott Field, III., the TC3 broke her rudder at Caseyville, Ill., soon after going aloft. For two hours, she drifted at the will of the wind, then negotiated a landing at Black Walnut, Mo., little the worse for wear...
...first portion. If by means of personal conferences, group discussions, and talks by recognized authorities continued through out the year, the Social Service Committee can guarantee faithful, honest work to the institutions with which it cooperates, the prevalent unfortunate impression of collegiate triflers will appreciably diminish, and the twin ideals of service and civic responsibility will have an opportunity at least of rising to the place which they deserve to hold in undergraduate thought...
...Student has pointedly indicated what a college paper should not do; but to this negative definition there must be added one which is affirmative and constructive. In any such formulation Independence and Liberalism must stand as twin first principles. To make a college daily a mere enlarged version of the official bulletin board and a pleasantly written broadside for faculty opinions is to indict the mental energy and the moral courage of its editors. To make it a propaganda sheet for stand-pattists is to give up the heritage of youth: the mission of reform and reorganization...
...outgoing gases are cooled by a column of oil forced under pressure through the stems and heads of the valves with greater reliability of the valve system as the result. A specially designed magneto furnishes a double spark. The general appearance of the motor is not unlike a Packard twin-six automobile engine with two sets of six cylinders arranged in V form. It differs by its superiority...
...opening the series in Baltimore, the Orioles led 2 to 1. This lead was 3 to 1 after a fifth game.* St. Paul took the sixth with a fifth-inning rally, lost the seventh to Thomas' airtight pitching, then resolutely tied the series with two close games. The "twin cities" were, like Washington, ball crazy. Like the Senators, the Saints took the last...