Word: napier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Treated to a strange sight last week were antipodean U. S. tourists who happened to be in the cozy little seaport of Napier, New Zealand and followed the crowds to its racetrack for the annual Napier Steeplechase, one of the island's most outstanding horse races. A few jumps from the finish line, only one horse had a rider. All the others had lost their jockeys somewhere along the stiff, three-mile course. Like a crazy dream, first one spectator, then another, scampered onto the course, mounted riderless horses, took them over the remaining jumps and finished...
...Composite Aircraft," consists of two seaplanes-a small, swift, long-range ship securely locked on the back of a big short-range "mother" flying boat. The top plane, named Mercury, has a 73-ft. wing span, weighs 20,000 lb. loaded, is powered with four air-cooled 16-cyl. Napier-Half ord 340-h.p. engines, carries a total payload of 1,000 lb. (but no passengers) 3,500 mi. at 160 m.p.h. Its mother beneath, Maia, weighs 40,000 lb. loaded, has four big 9-cyl., 960-h.p. Bristol "Pegasus" radial engines, a wing span of 114 ft., speed...
...Wife of General Ling (Gaumont British), as a timely reminder that the sun never sets on the British accent, lay, its scene in British Crown Colony Hon -Kong. There it huffs & puffs until it blows down the house of double-dealing Genera1 Ling. Most imperial gesture: Actor Alan Napier, as the film's aptly named Governor Buckram, stepping out unarmed before a nasty-looking horde of Chinese bandits, demanding and getting their supine surrender...
...Oxford not knowing the Lord's Prayer, studied Arabic but not much else. When the news reached England that 13,000 British troops had been slaughtered in the Afghan Revolt, Burton packed up and went to India. Rapidly promoted to No. 1 secret agent under the great colonizer Napier, Burton turned in a too-realistic report on native vices which Napier's successor sent on to Bombay as an effective way of removing a subordinate whose bawdy satirizing of army etiquette did not amuse him. Burton narrowly missed expulsion, returned to England, his health and morale shaky from...
Forerunner of the modern slide-rule, "Napier's Bones," is among the other articles to be seen in Robinson Hall. The "bones" are tiny pieces of wood, one-quarter inch square in cross section and two inches long. The whole set is about the area of a playing card. Each face of the bones is neatly inscribed with multiples of each of the nine digits, and computations are made by sliding the bones until the proper figures are in alignment. The set was owned by Samuel Webber, President of Harvard from...