Word: types
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...necessity for reorganization in our consular service. Not the least important among the provisions in the resolution is one calling for the establishment upon a sounder basis of the junior service and a general increase in salaries, to attract to a diplomatic career University-trained men of the highest type and greatest ability...
...sermon Dr. Fosdick did not advance any Quixotic ideas of knight er-rantry on the part of the United States. He did give expression to a type of splendid American which has been mighty in the past, and which we trust will be mighty in the future. M. J. DONNER '21. P. P. COOGIN...
...writer of ""Recapitulation," a semi-editorial, has hit the point accurately; perhaps it might be well to add in postscript that a visiting Englishman or Irishman wouldn't be true to type without the usual generalizations about American commercialism...
Experiments in catapaulting the present type of machine, dependent for a start upon the swift passage of air over lift-creating planes, have increased the general interest in the possible development of the helicopter. In these experiments the machine is shot off a starting platform, much as a dart is thrown in the air. The start is so swift that the machine is able to pick up its flying speed and continue flight with its own engine...
Peter Cooper Hewitt and Francis Bacon Crocker have both experimented with the helicopter and obtained encouraging results. Scores of patents have been issued for this type of craft and the inventors have been divided into two classes--those who try to lift the machine by vertical propellors and those who attempt it with rotating wings...