Word: shutting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...door was fast shut but all Washington felt sure the subject of the talk was naval disarmament...
Hence prize contestants must fly level at no faster than 35 m.p.h., get a variable speed in normal flight of 45 m.p.h. to 100 m.p.h., glide three minutes at 38 m.p.h. with engine shut off, land within a 100-ft. space, take off in 300 ft., gain more than 35 ft. altitude within 500 ft. of starting takeoff, and fly "hands off." A manufacturer's pilot may put the plane through its best maneuvers. Guggenheim Fund pilots then try the plane themselves...
...Shut & Locked. Republican members
...southpaw Nekola will not pitch today after his feat of Thursday, when he shut out Boston College and held that team to a lone safety. Dobens, however, who twirled the Crusaders last year to victory over Harvard, may start, and will almost certainly see action if the Crimson bats get going. Coach Barry indicated last night that he might start Hebert, who held the Quantico Marines to three scattered singles, or the portsided Sims. In case the latter is called upon for mound duty, B. H. Ticknor '31 will play the center garden, but if a right hander pitches...
...powerful Red and Blue nine from the University of Pennsylvania wreaked vengeance last Saturday at Philadelphia on the Crimson forces for their defeat of the week before, and shut them out, 3 to 0. Peterson, the giant right-hander of the Quaker team, limited the Harvard nine to four scattered blows...