Word: cabinent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...problems involved were staggering. Aluminum alloys lose much of their strength at 300° F., so large parts of the X-3's skin, especially parts that get heat from the engines as well as from outside, are made of titanium. The cabin, which must be kept at a temperature where a man can sit, is cooled by a refrigerator powerful enough to air-condition an average movie theater. The refrigerator accounts for 10% of the empty weight of the X3, and absorbs 2,600 horsepower from its engines. Despite all this cooling, the windows of the cockpit (which...
...soldiers of the 7th Cavalry at the Battle of the Little Big Horn in 1876. But 14 years later, conquered by the forces of the Great White Father, Sitting Bull was old, fat and quiet. One frosty morning in 1890, a detachment of Indian police galloped up to his cabin on the Sioux reservation in South Dakota and shot him to death...
...without a fight-a pitiful handful of his old friends battled the policemen, and 16 men were killed in the brutal little fray. As rifles barked, an old, grey circus horse that belonged to Sitting Bull pirouetted, postured and then sat down gravely near the chief's cabin and raised one hoof, apparently under the impression that it was back under the big top. After these Chekhovian obsequies. Sitting Bull's body was carted to Fort Yates, N.Dak...
...Thorpe was born in a one-room log cabin near Prague, Okla. Jim's Indian mother-his father was half Irish-gave him the Sac and Fox tribal name Wa-Tho-Huck, meaning Bright Path. He was a muscular (5 ft. 11½ in., 185 Ibs.) youngster of 19 when he caught the eye of Football Coach Glenn ("Pop") Warner at the Carlisle (Pa.) Indian school. Pop Warner made Jim Thorpe into a football player, and Jim Thorpe made Pop's Carlisle Indians famous. One of Jim's biggest football thrills: "Running back two straight kickoffs...
...single-masted, single-stacked Andrea Doria is completely air-conditioned, has specialty shops, children's playrooms, a gymnasium and laundry, a 60-bed hospital, four theaters and a 30-car garage. She can carry 1,200 first, cabin and tourist-class passengers, with a separate swimming pool for each class...