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Word: bellyful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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The fastest (1,650 m.p.h.) and highest-flying (90,000 ft.) airplane on record came to a violent end last week. The chunky, rocket-powered Bell X-1A was fastened in its perch on the belly of its B-29 mother ship, and carried 30,000 ft. for a series...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Rocket Explosion | 8/22/1955 | See Source »

¶ At Philadelphia, newsmen and Pentagon brass watched the YC-123E "Panto-base" plane, a new amphibious version of the Air Force's land-based Chase C-123 transport, go through its paces on the Delaware River. Pilot Bernie Hughes made a normal take-off from nearby Mustin Naval...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Flight Log | 8/8/1955 | See Source »

This summer the Air Force will evaluate a new jet target, the Ryan Firebee, which it hopes will help solve the problem. The Firebee is an ugly little pilotless airplane, built like a potbellied bug with swept-back wings. It is only 17 ft. 3 in. long, and its wing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Jet Bug | 6/6/1955 | See Source »

An Indian child of three lay in a dusty courtyard under the brassy Andean sky, bony and emaciated, but big in the belly.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERU: Experiment in the Andes | 5/23/1955 | See Source »

What started the ape men walking on their hind legs? Dr. Britton installed a female chimp named Bonga on a small island in a lake at Charlottesville, Va. Bonga could not swim and therefore had to make the best of it, even though the Virginia winter soon brought snow. When...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Look Upward, Chimp | 4/25/1955 | See Source »

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