Word: chute
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...Murphy, of Columbia University. With his backing, Miss Laura Abbott Dale, editor of the society's Journal, rounded up 54 college students, put them to work shooting dice. To rule out physical skill, she had them roll the dice four at a time, down a specially built washboard chute with 55 baffles, made each subject try for every number (from one to six) in turn. Results...
...welcomed, looking anxiously from side to side, walked timidly down the gangplank. A flock of orphan children huddled protectively together, like sheep filing into a chute. A tired old woman scanned the faces along the barrier, paused, drew a great sobbing breath, then collapsed into the reaching arms of her daughter...
...each man. The B-17 "Dumbo"* dropped a 1½-ton, two-engined Higgins boat by parachute. Two men crawled into the boat, picked up the other survivors. The Dumbo radioed a submarine, which reached the Higgins boat next morning. One man was lost: the flight engineer, whose 'chute had failed to open...
...last week planes from Britain carried tons of top-priority ballot papers for distant war theaters, some (e.g., in Burma) to be dropped to combat troops by para chute. Because these far-flung soldier votes will be slow in returning, the election result will not be announced before July...
...jumping-to try to get your back to the wind before you hit-to loosen your buckles before landing in water-to cover your face if landing in trees-not to pull the ripcord until you had counted ten. The big question in all minds was: 'Will my chute open?' That is a terrible question...