Word: worked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three new instruments developed† during the eleven months' work made Lieutenant Doolittle's work possible. Those instruments: 1) Visual radio direction finder consisted of two reeds vibrating in consonance with a new short range radio beacon at Mitchel Field. When the plane is directly in the path of the beacon, the reeds vibrate uniformly. When the plane is off course, one reed fibrillates faster than the other. The closer the plane is to the beacon, the more intense the vibration. 2) Artificial horizon showed instantly at what angle the plane was flying in relation to the ground...
...forbid," said one of Carry's victims watching her work, "that I should ever strike a woman." She once told how two men tried to asphyxiate her by blowing cigaret-smoke through a hotel keyhole. When one place she raided proved to sell nothing more potent than chili con carne, she asked God to forgive the owner for tempting U. S. appetites with foreign dishes. She objected to the tobacco trade-name "Bull Durham" because bulls were manifestly no tobacco users. When she was jailed, a follower wrote to the judge: "We now propose if Mrs. Nation is held...
...advice he wired him last night and started Rube Walberg on the mound. Otherwise Dr. Huey made it quite clear that he would be in no way responsible for the outcome of the opener and even hinted that he thought it would serve Connie right for trying to work on his own hook...
...playing throughout the game seems to indicate that the season may at least prove more successful than the past few have been. There was of course apparent in Saturday's contest a good deal of ragged play which Coach Carr will set out to eliminate in this week's work. HARVARD WORCESTER Faude, g. g., Whittaker Catinella, r.f.b. l.f.b., Tillin Stollmeyer, l.f.b. r.f.b., Wilson Howe, r.h.b. l.h.b., Walker Kane, Booth, c.h.b. c.h.b., Rice Bland, l.h.b. r.h.b., Barnes Grover, r.o.f. l.o.f., Leibovich Wight, r.i.f. l.i.f., Fulka Broadbent, c.f. c.f., Larson Frame, l.i.f. r.i.f., Hanner Bodde, l.o.f. r.o.f.,Erikson Score--Harvard...
...with a real zest for his work that the Vagabond anticipates attending the following lectures today and tomorrow...