Word: propped
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...great success: "more terrible, perhaps, but yet more beautiful," than anything else he had done. A careful workman, he first built in his London studio, like a movie set, the cottage interior he intended to use.'Copying that on canvas, and painting the dawn stealing in the prop window, Fildes inserted the characters he had in mind: worried parents hovering in the shadows, their sick little girl feverishly sleeping in the light of an oil lamp, and the bearded doctor leaning over her, kindly and calm...
Only a small part of a plane's noise comes from the engine exhaust. Up to 95% comes from the propeller, whose fast-moving tips stir up racketing sound waves. To eliminate the waves, NACA designed a five-bladed prop, which looks like a five-petaled flower. It gives plenty of push when driven (through reduction gears) at a comparatively slow 1,000 r.p.m. The broad, leisurely blades do their work in near silence...
NACA says that its quiet prop is more efficient than faster, noisy propellers. (The plane equipped with it flew 5 m.p.h. faster.) NACA hopes that airplane manufacturers will adopt the design, and thus make small airfields acceptable in nicer and fussier neighborhoods. It even hints darkly of legislation making the quiet prop mandatory...
...same time, Blinken urged all '50 men who have not filled out a write-up card listing full name, home address, prop or high school, college activities, and branch of service in the Armed Forces if any, to do so on a three-by-five card by tomorrow, in Weld...
After subduing the Freshman five on February 12, Exeter Academy trimmed the Jayvee basketballers yesterday afternoon on the prop school court, 50 to 44, while the Yardling five was beating Huntington, 72 to 35, in a game at the Boston YMCA...