Word: containing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stream from horizontally mounted fans and driven laterally by aircraft-type propellers. Although the ingenious craft could skim almost effortlessly along smooth highways and waterways at automobile speeds, even the most powerful could not rise more than a foot above the sur face; the air curtain could not effectively contain pressurized air above this height. As a result, hovercraft could not operate over choppy seas or rough ground, where they might smash into jutting rocks or wave tops...
Transatlantic? By 1963, British engineers had solved the clearance problem by equipping hovercraft with rubberized canvas skirts several feet long. Although the skirts were strong enough to contain the pressurized air-enabling hovercraft to rise several feet above the ground-they were flexible enough to brush over solid obstacles and high waves. The development of skirts converted the hovercraft from an experimental device into a practical means of transportation. The British Hovercraft Corp. has already built and sold seven-ton, 18-passenger hovercraft and nine-ton, 38-passenger models like those in operation at Expo 67. Both have...
Hanging Gardens. To do it, he simply designed the hotel around a great skylit courtyard that rises through the building's full 21-story height and is big enough, according to the hotel's ads, to contain the Statue of Liberty. Wrapped around the towering shaft of air on four sides is the hotel proper, layer after layer of rooms opening onto continuous interior balconies that take the place of traditional corridors...
...Federation and the Administration did seem to reach an uneasy agreement on the other major issue--that the present yardsticks for measuring the fifth-time teaching load contain inequities that should be eliminated. But they split sharply on the status and function of teaching fellows: the University has taken the very disturbing position that teaching fellows are not really Harvard employees but graduate students who teach as only a sideline. Throughout the Federation's campaign, the University has treated the group as though it represented only graduate students, not what one Federation leader called "the junior faculty of the junior...
...growth stock, attain that target, unload, and then seek other opportunities for quick capital gains." Given the size of their buying power, said Martin, such activity "may virtually corner the market in individual stocks," at the least cause undesirable price fluctuations. "Practices of this nature" said he, "contain poisonous qualities reminiscent of some respects of the old pool operations of the 1920s...