Word: sharp
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...newspapers. His public is composed, he slogans, of 20 million people?"People Who Think." Whenever he is moved to expound his personal views in public, all he needs to do is notify his nearest editor and the land will soon be flooded with pungent paragraphs over the cramped, irregular, sharp-slanting Hearst signature...
...Advisory Council of National Broadcasting Co. Since the Advisory Council numbers among its members a long list of men and women whose U. S. citizenship is a source of U. S. pride, and since the Lucky Strike campaign has been widely, conspicuously flayed, the Open Letter was essentially a sharp contrast between the admittedly high character of the Council and the allegedly low character of the campaign. Said the Letter...
...hand was placed on a table and a spectator was asked to choose a number and slowly count to it. When the number was reached the wax hand emphatically stopped the counting by a sharp...
...slotted wing is his device. When the ordinary airplane rises at too sharp an angle with the ground, air, which must stream sucking over the wings to support them, cannot reach enough wing surface to do its work. Consequently the plane loses flying speed. It stalls. Then it drops. The Handley Page wing contains a long narrow auxiliary wing set in its forward edge. When the main wing reaches the stalling angle, the auxiliary flaps up and suddenly presents a new surface to the wind. The wind also rushes through the space between the auxiliary and main wings. The result...
...Freshman summary: HARVARD 1932 BROWN Speck, g. g., Williams Rodenberg, pt. pt., Mackessey Lowenberg, c. pt. c. pt., Sharp Field, 1d. 1d., Lounsbury Jackson, 2d. 2d., Rougvie Wilder, 3d. 3d., Riggs Pattison, c. c., White Harris, 3a. 3a., Paola Abramovitch, Keck, 2a. 2a., Strickland Winslow, Cochrane, 1a. 1a., Stafford Kuhl. i.h. i.h., Dane Lay, o.h. o.h., Fram...