Word: windwards
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...which swings with the wind, like a feed-tray for birds. The circular core, hung on a duraluminum mast planted on, not in, the ground, is lashed together by guy-wires on a system of triangular tensions, like an airplane. A square house piles up air pressure on the windward side, creates a vacuum on the leeward side, thus sucking the heat out. The streamlined house slides the wind off, fills the leeward vacuum space, saves heat, requires less resistance to wind stress. A cone on the housetop lets in air which settles evenly down in a slow draft...
Taxation per capita is tremendously on the increase. To decrease expenditures, even when deficits are inevitable seems impossible, even to check the giddy rise of state spending is a problem of the greatest difficulty. One of democracy's remaining anchors to windward is sensitivity and consequent self-corrective possibilities. When demand for a product ceases, the producers soon discover the change and production is curtailed. The public as a whole does not continue to pay for unwanted produce as it must in a rigid Communistic system, where wants are dictated. When politicians or business leaders of a certain type...
...junior event Cornell is first, Harvard second, and Tech third. In the matter of lanes however, there is little advantage, there being no leeward or windward positions. The water is brought for everyone, or the water is smooth for everyone. The only ones who really suffer from the wind are the spectators, that is, if the wind is accompanied by rain, for the observation train here is exposed to the elements...
...they had rounded the first mark; she was sailing at her best angle, with booms well inboard. Bluenose was still ahead at the third mark, but here Capt. Charley Johnson, sailing Thebaud because Capt. Ben Pine was sick, showed seamanship that baffled Capt. Angus Walters on Bluenose. With a windward tack ahead, Capt. Walters did what any sailor might do-he close-hauled to port. Thebaud came up astern and after trimming sheets stood off to westward...
...week they raced for the big silver cup the Johnson brothers, Graham and Lowndes, of Easton, Md., won last year in New Orleans with Eel. The boats were Stars?the most popular class of racing sloops in the world, 22 ft. 7½ in. long, Marconi rigged. Sometimes they went windward and leeward off Gibson Island Clubhouse, to a buoy and back, and sometimes around a little triangular course in which they turned eight buoys although the course totaled only 10? mi. Stars are fast in light airs, but on the Chesapeake they had two days of strong racing weather...