Word: twist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...went as Naval attaché to Rome; in 1921 became Commandant of the Mare Island Navy Yard; in 1924 an instructor at the Naval War College at Newport. From that post he was assigned to the Bureau of Aeronautics at Washington, a circumstance that gave a major twist to his career. Soon after he was sent to San Diego, given the aircraft carrier Langley and made commander of the aircraft squadron of the battle fleet. In that post he was credited with doing a masterful job in whipping the Navy's air force into an effective fighting unit. After...
...year are practically unknown. But there are always new wrinkles. The talk of the 1934 show was rubber mountings for engines, to reduce noise and vibration. First introduced by Chrysler two years ago, it is incorporated in many new models, notably in Elco's Veedette 28. Another new twist is Dodge's "Multiple vee bottom," a system of overlapped planking which reduces side spray, adds stability and speed...
Proctor and Herbert S. Sise '34 led a group of varsity ski team candidates last weekend over the new trail on North Uncanoonuo in Southern New Hampshire. He tried the candidates out on "Death Corner," a wide gash in the mountainside where the trail has a twist with reverse banking at the foot of a steep descent. Proctor had them practice stem and pure Christiana turns before they ended the day by a run in a blinding snow storm...
...pantry for his apprehensive master's signal. Worse, the girl, too, is in the house. The results of Derwent's manipulations with a wall clock may puzzle you, but if you think it over a while you will find that Playwright Armstrong has played fair. Cleverest twist to the whole bag of theatrical tricks occurs when Derwent saves himself from detection by impulsively blurting the only truthful statement he makes during the police inquiry...
...attendants showed him how anti-snake-bite vaccine is made from venom, President Justo rode out to a typical Brazilian coffee jazenda, then embarked at Santos to sail home on the Argentine dreadnaught Moreno. He had not even reached home when an incident occurred to give a decidedly ironic twist to the peace negotiations. A cousin and a nephew of President Vargas were killed in a minor fracas with Argentine frontier guardsmen on the Uruguay River...