Word: drags
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Otherwise, there may be a few spots that drag or one or two off-key notes, but they are lost in the many show-stoppers and production numbers. "Ad Man Out" is an entertaining musical and a tribute to those who put so much time and talent into it. Audiences will continue to have a good time watching...
...seconds too soon, and the experts are now trying to figure out why. Astronomer Gerard P. Kuiper of the University of Chicago believes that the chief reason is the inaccuracy of man's fundamental timepiece, the revolution of the earth on its axis. For many reasons, including the drag of the tides and the little-understood motions of fluids in its interior, the turns of the earth vary slightly. This makes the earth a capricious clock which can be checked only by comparing its turning with the motions of independent bodies such as Mercury...
Since most astronomers agree that the earth and the moon became partners when the solar system was formed, the age of the earth-moon combination is also the age of the solar system. Because of the drag of the tides, the moon is slowly moving away from the earth. The best estimate, says Ter Haar, is that it took the moon two to four billion years to reach its present distance. This gives the age of the earth-moon partnership, and therefore the age of the solar system: two to four billion years...
...nautical miles; its service ceiling: 50,000 ft. Besides fighting other fighters, it. can serve as a fighter-bomber. Structurally, the F-100 makes liberal use of titanium. It has an elaborate air-conditioning system to protect the pilot from the heat generated by high speed, and a drag-chute keeps it from running off small or slippery fields...
...sincere spreader for the "little man everywhere" and yet was capable of calculating ruthlessness; one who drew people to him by his personal dynamism and then twisted and used them for his own purposes. Cagney's leonine, forceful acting paints a convincing picture of the figure who could drag a dying man onto the witness chair to further his own political ambitions...