Word: whirlings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...submitted in English A. Mr. Balch called attention to the imagination brought to bear in a theme about the Great Emancipator, by a Freshman Gamaliel Bradford who wrote, "Abe Lincoln, his big feet more than filling the shoes of his weak-kneed predecessor, Buchanan, stepped into that gay, social whirl of guile and graft at Washington with a threatening warcloud darkening the Southern horizon." Another budding historian explained that "Queen Elizabeth was by this time firmly entrenched on her throne...
...will be unlimited in its scope in aeronautics. In other words we shall be interested both in engines for aircraft and in aircraft themselves," said Researcher Lawrance. To Mr. Lawrance, famed as the man who has done most to develop air-cooled engines and as father of the Wright Whirl wind, the new arrangement is really a return to laboratory and workbench. As a youngster at Groton, school for rich men's sons, Charlie Lawrance neglected his language classes in favor of mathematics, started building an automobile. As a Yale freshman in 1901 he and a class mate...
...article for the August American Magazine: "If you're a visitor in our home, you may look to see me kiss her [Mrs. Nellie Grossman Guest] good-bye in the morning and kiss her again when I come home at night. I'll give her a hug and a whirl around the room and ask her how the day has gone...
...water (between 79-86° F. in tropical seas) in a boiler, reduce the pressure and set it to boiling? Cold water could be brought up from 5,000 ft. below the sea's surface to condense the exhaust, maintain the vacuum. The cheap steam thus generated would whirl turbines, make electricity...
...staying away from them, cheered when, in the first round, Uzcudun spread his legs to keep from falling. After that Uzcudun kept his chin on Von Porat's chest and his elbows in front of his own jaw. Suddenly an elbow would straighten, a fist appear, whirl through the air, land on flesh. Paulino's prestige has been dimmed by recent drubbings handed out by Max Schmeling, Tuffy Griffiths. His victory leaves the heavyweight situation more muddled than ever...