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Quite out of keeping with the usual liberal mindedness with which the Engineering School gives instruction to members of the College who have a slight but not a burning interest in the subject is this course in engineering drawing, which presents the material in such a rigid framework that it is extremely difficult for the student to develop flexible methods in analyzing engineering drawing problems. To be sure, a large part of drafting consists in the knowledge of conventions, but convention stressed to the utter stifling of any individual attack on a problem is hard...
...cellophane coating on every duralumin* girder of the Akron's framework, wherever it is touched by the envelope. Purpose: to protect the metal against the acid in the "dope" with which the envelope is varnished...
...terrific struggle with her material, it seems probable that she can act, though for proof the U. S. will have to wait for her next picture. Donald Ogden Stewart wrote this one, which seems, and in all likelihood is, a rejected draft of his famed Laughter. The framework of the two is identical-a young woman marries a rich man for his money and then, deciding she cannot stand it, goes back to an early sweetheart. But here apparently a production conference was called, the keynote of which was "Now, make it different. Not like Laughter." Miss Bankhead leaves...
...Western Front that animates this little war story. Three years ago war would have been glorified in such a piece of cinema trade-goods as this, even if it were glorified only as a background for heroic actions; now war is presented simply to be pilloried. The framework-four men assigned to hold the enemy in a beleaguered post while the main body of troops retires-has possibilities. Each man, faced with almost certain death, tells how he came to go to war. But things get started too slowly. Several dozen U.S. flags, tons of dynamite, miles of barbed wire...
...automobile. He named it the "Sky Car," admitting (hoping) that "the public, in its usual fashion, is likely ... to dub it something less formal." The Sky Car is a low-slung, truncated cabin suspended beneath a cantilever wing, with a tail assembly mounted at the end of an outrigger framework. The engine is a 75-h. p. pusher, with the propeller whirling between the members of the outrigger. The ship is all-metal, blue and silver, weighs under 1,000 lb. Anything but racy, it looks and is a winged bus. The venturi tube (which catches the wind...