Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chief control on an airplane is the "joy stick," regulating the ailerons on the wings and the elevator on the tail. Stand a pencil vertically on a table. Affix a piece of cardboard, parallel with the table, to the upper end of the pencil. Slant the pencil at any angle in any direction, keeping its lower end on the table. Imagine that the pencil is the joy stick, the table is the ground, the cardboard is the airplane. Thus, can be seen the approximate positions of a flying ship as determined by manipulating the joy stick. A pilot must constantly...
Alone in seven thousand dollars worth of machinery and the upper spaces of the Atlantic heavens a man is pushing his way from New York to Paris on a non-stop flight. Captain Charles A. Lindbergh in his plane. The Spirit of St. Louis, keeps alive and energetic an ancient tradition, the tradition which sent men into peaks in Darien and sends men up the frigid sides of Mt. Everest...
...reasons, does not seem a true indication of the feeling of upperclassmen toward a University dining hall. The duty of ascertaining this opinion is patently one for the only official undergraduate governing body,--the Student Council. Three hundred petitioners from among the three thousand or more students in the upper classes of Harvard College and in the Graduate Schools, excepting the Business School, would assure the dining hall for next year. Considering the proportion of signers among a thousand-odd Freshmen it does not seem unlikely that a complete petition might be submitted to President Lowell this spring,--should...
...long been established. Chess is more widely played than checkers. I believe. It is more complex and outwardly spectacular, but is by no manner of means even approximately as scientific. Every position in checkers is a problem in pure mathematics. As one who has (in 1906) worked in the upper reaches of differential and integral calculus, and who has also spent many years (not recently) in the study of checkers and in original analysis of published match and tournament games, I may be privileged to speak on this phase. Curiously enough, chess has been almost wholly the choice...
...Italian factory, Signer Bugatti revealed that he is also making a Bugatti boat-an all-steel "cigar," 82 ft. long, 10 ft. in diameter, which he said will be able to cross the Atlantic in two days. It is designed to travel half-submerged. Tubes in the upper surface of the whalelike hull inhale air. The engines, developing 2,400 horsepower, will propel the craft 62 m. p. h.* It will carry eight passengers and enough fuel for 60 hours cruising at top speed. Before the end of 1927, Signor Bugatti hopes to send his boat on its maiden voyage...