Word: leveling
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...will prove to be sufficiently selfish. Then it will be up to the colleges to find a way to keep them from accepting offers which they get. And the only way will be through raising their salaries-not to a mere living wage, but to several times their present level...
...more crying needs in the University than the need for adornments and embellishments of the House Plan. It is even more clear that, with the one possible exception to be named below, not a dollar should be diverted toward the athletic program, which stands now at a higher level than at any previous era in Harvard's history...
...proposed that the vertical scale be ten times that of the horizontal scale. Thus the Rocky Mountains of Colorado would be 20 to 30 feet above the level of the lake and 10 to 20 feet above ground. The Palisades of the Hudson would be a foot high. The Grand Canyon would be 250 feet long and ten feet deep. Niagara Falls would be four inches high...
...affect the life of the lower wing. The minimum performance requirements of the competition, included in the 18 preliminary tests which the Tanager successfully passed, are a high speed of 110 m.p.h., a minimum speed of 35 m.p.h., a rate of climb of 600 ft. per min. at sea level, a range of flight of 405 mi. at full throttle, an absolute ceiling (maximum altitude to which plane can travel) of 15,000 ft. By passing the preliminaries, the Tanager is entitled to a $10,000 prize. If it has no other competitor in the finals, it will take...
...perhaps was, general manager of Alaskan Airways. There are no regular air transport lines in the Peninsula. Alaskan Airways has bases at Nome, Anchorage, Fairbanks. It charters its planes for taxi and express service, using about 70 small government landing fields in summer and any patch of level snow in winter...