Word: compressional
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Even with four goals, the forward line was unimpressive. On numerous occasions it failed to take advantage of loose balls in front of the goal. Even with all the starters in, the line was not at full strength since Bill Lingelbach was out with a cold and Godfrey Truslow was...
High Compression. The Rev. Robert C. Hartnett, S.J., editor of the Jesuit weekly America, accused the Times of ballooning some casual anti-Joe McCarthy remarks he had made into headlines, at the expense of a "balanced report" of his considered views on how academic freedom and civil liberties are being...
"Transparent glass enclosures such as the United Nations . . . can be built only because materials in tension rather than walls bear the load of the building. [The] basic structural qualities [of building materials] are only two: resistance to compression and to tension stresses ... In all architecture before our time, only the...
Last week the first mass-produced TR-2 came off the assembly line. Short (12 ft. 4 in.) and low (3 ft. 10 in. to the top of the windshield), it has a four-cylinder, 90-h.p. engine with two carburetors and 8.5 to 1 compression ratio. The TR-2...
Testifying at the Du Pont antitrust trial in Chicago last week, General Motors Chairman Alfred P. Sloan Jr. explained why Charles F. Kettering, the company's famed research wizard, never made the top policy committee. Sloan said that in 1943 he had proposed that the committee admit "Boss Ket...