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...oomph, its exhibits are much the same as ever. There are no longer any tumbling Japs; but 600-lb., 12-year-old Gargantua is still on display in the basement. The sad, crummy-looking clowns still provoke mirth. Massimilliano Truzzi still juggles flaming torches; the Wallendas ride a bicycle tandem on the high wire; the Flying Concellos do their breathless, double-and-triple-somersault flying leaps; the lions & tigers look simultaneously ferocious and bored; the trained seals render My Country, 'Tis of Thee; and the band still blares & blares, making all its half-hundred numbers sound exactly like...
Like one of the fastest airplanes that ever flew,† the two-man Japanese submarines which attacked Pearl Harbor had contrarotating propellers -two tandem screws placed close together, turning in opposite directions. Blades on the second screw are pitched counter to those of the other screw so that both thrust in the same direction. Such devices for U.S. warplanes were announced last week to be "in the developmental stage" by Curtiss-Wright, United Aircraft, other plane builders...
Governor Eugene Talmadge of Georgia, cigar in hand, rode the rear seat of a tandem at the head of a bicycle cavalcade through Atlanta to popularize pedaling, declared at the finish that cycling not only saved gas and rubber but beautified the complexion...
Coach Barnaby has two doubles teams that seem to work together very well. Lyell and Peabody, although having been beaten in practice, shape up as the best, while Wilson and Ellis appear to be the next best tandem. Barnaby has a host of practically even players from which to plok his third doubles. They are Keith Symon, Lin Burton, Tom Sears, Jack Clarke, Aubrey Gouid, Don Daniels, and Jim Jenkins...
Except for German Army cars, everyone in Paris went on foot, on bicycles, or dived into the suffocatingly crowded Métro. The rich resurrected carriages and rode behind cockaded coachmen in barouches or victorias. One banker found a tandem bicycle; put his chauffeur up front, went through the motions of pedaling behind. By night Paris was dead except for the distant thunder of the R. A. F. blasting away at the Le Bourget or Villacoublay airfields...