Word: drags
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ph.D. thesis. Counsilman found that Subject Breen's kick was relatively weak, but instead of beefing up Breen's legs, Counsilman taught him to slow them down and barely flutter them during part of the stroke. "If he kicked more," explains Counsilman, "it would act as a drag. It would be something like an automobile whose front wheels are going 30 miles an hour and the back wheels only...
...minute repertory of spins, splits, axels and loops (the same one that won the world title at Garmisch). She had never done better. But Tenley Albright also was in top form; the ankle she injured before the Olympics was healed. Her spectacular mazurka, witches' jump followed by a drag, and an Axel Paulsen jump, were woven into a pattern of almost unbelievable perfection. The final score was decimal close, but the judges proclaimed Tenley Emma Albright winner and U.S. champion for the fifth straight year. It was the eighth time in nine meetings that she had beaten Carol...
...Eisenhower partnership program for joint public and private power projects, which "has been permitted to drag," despite willingness by private power to help supply $300 million to $500 million annually for new facilities...
Since party divisions are generally meaningless in a discussion of integration, it would be foolish indeed for either party to drag the problem into the political ring; it would also be extremely dangerous for the cause of integration, since integration will make progress as a legal, not as a political, issue. Those working effectively for integration in the South are emphasizing not that the Court decision is right, but that it is now the supreme law of the land and must be obeyed. Once the ruling on integration is lowered from its judicial pedestal, the decision will lose what sanctity...
...eliminate the trouble, the engineers applied the new "area rule" theory of Engineer Richard T. Whitcomb of the Government's National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. In 1951, Engineer Whitcomb discovered in wind-tunnel experiments that the total drag on a plane is not merely the sum of the drag on each of its parts, but varies according to where the parts are located. Convair's F-102 was redesigned with a punched-in "coke bottle" fuselage to smooth the air flow over the critical wing junction. Result: on its first flight, Convair...