Word: drags
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first break (said Belson hopefully: "They walked out on Rite of Spring, too"). But San Franciscans have taken to Vortex so enthusiastically that they were standing in line last week to get in. Vortexmen Jacobs and Belson are confident that they have stumbled on a form that will "drag people away from TV" and beat Cinerama at its own game ("Once you've seen Lowell Thomas fly round the world, you've had it"). Their wild enthusiasm is shared by San Francisco Chronicle Critic Alfred Frankenstein, who piled absolute upon absolute, and then sliced it, in his vertiginous...
...used to make solid rockets behave. One method, he said, is to put vanes in the gas jet. When their angles are changed, they deflect the stream of gas like a rudder. This system was used on the German wartime V2, but the vanes add a lot of drag, and they must be made of highly heat-resistant material if they are to last even the few minutes needed to do their...
...like the combustion chamber of a liquid-fuel rocket. This is extremely difficult because the flexible pipe must carry the giant flow of hot, high-speed, high-pressure gas without leaking or burning out. But Ritchey implied that it can be done in an efficient way that causes little drag loss...
...heaviest, Atlas is probably the biggest object that has orbited. Overall, it is 85 ft. long, 10 ft. in diameter. It is a delicate beast. Its main body is a fuel tank of bubble-thin metal. This bulk makes it easy to see, but it also creates atmospheric drag. For this reason, its estimated life is only 20 days...
...students are supposed to bring questions to teachers, "but several of us have the impression that the students are just letting their questions go rather than take the trouble"; day-to-day happenings cannot be related to course material; teachers filming new courses have to be careful not to drag in anything topical. Said one teacher plaintively: "They say it takes the pick-and-shovel repetition out of teaching. But some teachers like to teach...