Word: venturi
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...outrigger framework. The engine is a 75-h. p. pusher, with the propeller whirling between the members of the outrigger. The ship is all-metal, blue and silver, weighs under 1,000 lb. Anything but racy, it looks and is a winged bus. The venturi tube (which catches the wind for the speed indicator) attached to the nose outside, even suggests an oldtime Ford crank. But it is the cabin interior that Designer Stout has ingeniously arranged to make the automobile driver feel instantly at home. The dashboard almost exactly duplicates that of the oldtime Model T Ford...
...several years Averardi was an Assistant Professor of German Literature at the University of Florence, and during this time he translated the work of the Italian scholar of art. Adolofo Venturi, into German. He is also thoroughly familiar with English, and has translated various Elizabethan dramatists into Italian...
...been presenting a series of concerts during the season not only at Harvard, but also at other colleges throughout the East His program for the afternoon follows: Prelude in G major Bach Fuge, Canzone und Epilog (Fis dur) for organ, women's voices and violin, "Credo in vitam venturi saeculi. "Amen," Karg-Elert Choral Prelude, "O Welt, ich muss dich lassen" Brahms Choral Prelude, "Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ" Bach Fuge, Canzone und Epilog (Fis dur) Karg-Elert
Father Tacchi-Venturi, upon raising his eyes from his papers, saw a pale, demented face and a hand which grasped a slender, dagger-like paper knife. Quick, the assassin sprang. Quicker, the Jesuit dodged. As a result the knife barely lacerated the neck skin of Father Tacchi-Venturi. Meanwhile the sleepy porter had valorously collared Signor De Angelis...
...incident closed when Father Tacchi-Venturi's neck was neatly bound up at the Santo Spirito Hospital. Later, seated in an armchair, he received a visit of condolence from Pietro Cardinal Gasparri, suave Papal Secretary of State...