Word: exhaustable
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...night of March 14 the sky over Holloman Air Force Base, N. Mex. was vacuum-clear with stars thick beyond it. At 1145 a.m. a slender Aerobee rocket rose from a launching tower, the bright flame of its exhaust dwindling to a spark and disappearing among the crowding stars. Then, when the rocket was 60 miles up, a new star bloomed in the sky, brighter than the planet Venus. Swiftly it grew, spreading in ten minutes to four times the diameter of the moon, and shedding half the full moon's brilliance. At this stage the glowing spot...
...student in the academic relationship. His insistence on the need of dedication to propositions is echoed by the editors of i.e. in their editorial, "The Place of Opposition": "A society of no open conflicts, where gossip is the only expression of feeling, is unhealthy. If an emotion does not exhaust itself on its proper object, it can never exhaust itself and becomes an endless spin of talk. We need more directness, more active awareness...
Perfume of Exhaust Fumes. Frenchbred Lilly was "just eighteen when I stood (for the first time) at the corner of 34th Street and Broadway" and "breathed in the perfume of exhaust fumes . . . sweeter to me than the headiest essences of the flower fields of France." Few of the natives shared this preference for exhaust fumes, so Lilly was obliged to go to work cultivating the headier essences, and is now a rich, renowned and happily married hatter-"Lilly Dache from 9 to 5 and Mrs. [Jean] Despres from 5 to 9." Both personalities have contributed to this book...
...opened or closed by the slightest movement of the muscles over which they are placed. The opening of each valve causes carbon dioxide to spurt from the container through a corresponding tube to tiny air bellows that move part of the limb. The carbon gases escape through a special exhaust...
...reconstruction of the Flight 476 crash: the cylinder crack released an explosive mixture of gasoline and air, which was probably ignited by the hot exhaust manifold. The flames passed through the fire wall behind the cylinders, where they should have been stopped, and melted gas and oil lines, which released fresh fuel. The fire, now a roaring blowtorch, burned through the aluminum nacelle skin and heated the front wing spar. It failed, and the wing came...