Word: winds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chief's silk hat (which The Chief detests) a final swirl, Boris, with others, got into an automobile and was driven off through crowded streets to the Capitol: a monstrous building with a domed centre, .the like of which you never see in the Balkans. A nipping wind blew up from the Potomac. The clouds were growing thicker. Boris was distressed...
...Another example is offered by the vibration of buildings in the wind. A certain building which engineers were called upon to deal with was swinging to an appreciable degree. It was found that by the construction of a flagpole of proper flexibility on top of the building, and by suspending a weight of several hundred pounds from this pole, that the vibration period of the entire building was altered and the swinging stopped...
Outside his door newsgatherers stood ankle-deep in slushy snow, their collars turned against a winter wind zipping up the S Street hill. Moved by pity and mischief, Congressman Black of New York offered in the House a resolution to appropriate $5,000 to build the newsmen a temporary shelter...
...ordinary motorcar engine, with its 4, 6 or 8 cylinders set in a line, or its 6, 8 or 12 cylinders arranged in a deep V. has much less wind resistance than the radial airplane motor. Cooling by water requires bulk and weight, yet many a large and powerful plane uses Packard and Curtiss water-cooled models...
...great handicap of the radial engine is that its spreading cylinders create wind resistance and so slow an airplane's speed...