Word: drags
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...going to take your windshield off, it reduces drag considerably...
...stared at him for a moment and said, "It may reduce drag, but without the windshield dirt flies about my face and hands. The windshield remains where it is." Vag finished taping on the number...
...rushed to buy sets for themselves, even when they know no English. After an armed forces transmitter went up at Asmara in Eritrea, Americans found their opposite numbers coming to them with a familiar complaint: the children were neglecting their homework and skimping meals because it was impossible to drag them away from the great grey tube...
...trace of air that exists at this altitude has almost no drag, so Dr. Hagen thinks that the little satellite "will probably circle the earth over the heads of your grandchildren, and even their grandchildren," for as many as 200 years. Its two radio transmitters are still working fine, and since they get their power from solar batteries, they will broadcast indefinitely until some disaster, e.g., meteor impacts, shuts them down...
...shortsighted policies of at least one self-anointed national professional group. The financial ring of their concern is very hollow. They insult the intelligence of the public when they believe people do not see the big dollar sign through the sham of their propaganda." Wild Oklahoma broncos would not drag the name of the "one group" from Dr. Phelps, but no hearer doubted that he meant the American College of Surgeons, which, in its campaign for higher standards of surgery, has vastly increased the surgeon's jurisdiction as against the G.P.'s. ¶ Medical care in general costs...