Word: upper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your boots?" "Yes, sir." "Do you know how hard it is to get a dollar out of the soil?" "Yes, sir." All these "correct" answers referred to the time when as a college boy Rex Tugwell used to work during vacations on his father's fruit farm in upper New York State. Since 1915 when he was graduated from Wharton School of Finance & Commerce, he has had a wholly academic career. In fact he is so much an academician that in spite of bad hay fever, he now gets fun out of digging in the fruit and vegetable gardens...
...Waban, Mass.; Thomas I. Parkinson of New York, N. Y.; Olof H. Pearson of Dorchester, Mass.; Harry M. Plotkin of Athol, Mass.; John B. Rackcliffe of Newton, Mass.; Arthur L. Shade of West Englewood, N. J.; Rogers V. Scudder of St. Louis, Mo.; Arnold M. Seligmen of Newton Upper Falls, Mass.; Samuel Sonenfield of Lake wood, Ohio; Gordon C. Streeter of Stoningoton, Conn.; Cyrus L. Sulzberger of New York, N. Y.; Burton H. Tarplin of Brookline, Mass.; Robert J. Towne of Waterton, Mass.; Simon L. Weker of East Boston, Mass.; David Weld of Huntington, L. I., N. Y.; Henry...
Suction slots through which a fan inside the wing sucks air, control the thin stratum of air ("boundary layer") next the upper surface of the wings, increase lift 150% using only 2% of a light airplane's power...
Compressibility burble is a phenomenon which appears at speeds of 500 m.p.h. or higher. Plane speeds have not reached the point where "compressibility burble" has become a practical limiting factor, but propeller tip speeds are near it. "Compressibility burble" is a sharp break away of the airflow from the upper wing surface like the bow-waves of a ship, leaving the air directly behind extremely rarefied...
...coin held under the upper lip and a cold key dropped down the back to stop a nosebleed. If those fail, let the blood drip on an ax or knife and bury it in the ground...