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Word: burnes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...close to completing a working prototype of the engine, considers this division of labor by the pistons-or "split cycling," as he calls it-a distinctive feature. By relieving the power piston of the job of inducting air, it allows the engine to take in more air and burn its fuel during a much greater portion of each cycle than in conventional engines. Moreover, a blast of fresh air helps expel the exhaust gases before any more fuel is introduced. The net result, Ansdale explains, is not only a more efficient use of gasoline, but also less of the unburned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Rotary with a Twist | 12/4/1972 | See Source »

Second-place Penn (3-2-0), reeling off upsets over Harvard and Yale and hell-best to burn Dartmouth on Quaker soil next week, faces seventh-place Columbia (1-3-1) in Philly today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Second-Place Big Red to Host Ivy-Leading Dartmouth Today | 11/18/1972 | See Source »

...necessity, the country's doctors have been concentrating on improving the treatment of war injuries, particularly burns caused by white phosphorus from bombs. Most civilians are trained in basic first aid; Simon saw children of five or six with first-aid kits strapped to their belts. Minor shrapnel and burn cases are cared for at local clinics; serious ones are sent to the large hospitals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: North Viet Nam's Rx | 11/6/1972 | See Source »

Penn may well burn Harvard's defense where its most vulnerable--on kick coverage Bellizeare and Steve Solow are perhaps the best one two punch kick return team in the League...

Author: By Evan W. Thomas, | Title: Football Team Favored Over Pennsylvania Today | 11/4/1972 | See Source »

...story line is brilliantly absurd, beginning with Dixon's exulting over the perfect political pitch: support for the rights of fetuses. The Boy Scouts descend on Washington in unanticipated, but outraged protest. If Dixon supports the burn . They reason he most also favor me tercourse. How can they believe that, Trick E. wonders, after his lifelong attempt to disassociate himself "from anything remotely resembling a human body...

Author: By Peter M. Shane, | Title: Nixon | 10/26/1972 | See Source »

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