Word: developer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...starting line and thus conceal the naval aircraft factory's "bungling construction." For six years the Navy had hampered his speed experiments. When in February he was ordered to sea duty, he resigned from the service in the belief that only in private aviation could he develop a plane fast enough to regain international speed honors...
...would necessarily be based on such a short period of trial as the Cambridge School of the Drama has had. The problem is to provide adequate and effective material for instruction which will be sufficient but which at the same time will leave an opportunity for the student to develop ingenuity which would be capable of meeting the individual problems which will arise in the practical theatre world...
...aims and purposes of the San Francisco Exchange, according to its constitution: "To develop and maintain just and equitable principles of trade and business. ... To promote and enforce high standards of commercial honor and integrity.'' *San Francisco firms with New York membership: Anderson & Fox, J. Earth & Co., H. J. Barneson & Co., Wilcox Drake & Co., Wm. Cavalier & Co., Graves, Banning & Co., Schwabacher & Co., Sutro & Co., Walsh O'Conner & Co., Dean Witter & Co., Chapman De Wolfe & Co. New York firms with San Francisco membership are: E. F. Hutton & Co., Logan & Bryan, McDonnell & Co., E. A. Pierce & Co., Russell, Miller...
...into wing construction. At extreme speeds, a monoplane wing is subject to "flutter," or rhythmic oscillation, which leads to rapid destruction of the member involved. The new Boeing model has satisfactorily overcome this difficulty, performs better than its biplane cousin. Equipped with a Pratt & Whitney Wasp motor, supercharged to develop 475 h. p., it cruises at 165 m. p. h., has a high speed well in excess of 200 m. p. h. It carries two machine guns shooting through the propeller, a bomb-rack for a few small "eggs...
...types of men; first, for those who feel a human-interest in the many problems of people of very limited means who live in the poorer sections of the city; for those who have some talent in a particular line such as teaching, coaching or music and wish to develop that by further practice; for those men who expect to enter business or politics at some future date and wish the opportunity to learn the points of view of the workers and of various foreign radical groups. So Social Service may be said to offer the practical supplement...