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Turboprops are a sort of halfway mark between piston engines and the turbojets that drive fighter airplanes. Their inside works are very like the jets', but instead of putting all their propulsive energy into a blast of hot gas shot out the tailpipe, they extract some of it by means of a turbine set in the blast and use it to drive a conventional propeller. This compromise gives turboprops some advantage. They are simpler and lighter than piston engines, and they burn cheap, nonexplosive kerosene instead of high-octane gas. Unlike turbojets, they do not have...
...pulls teeth should also extract data that would shed light on man's origin and future, he told the Massachusetts Dental Society...
...Criminal Mind. In Wichita Falls, Tex., Maude Stonecipher reported that someone had ransacked her house, made off with two bottles of vanilla extract. In Niagara Falls, N.Y., Walter Tucker told police that someone had broken into his garage, left three automobile tires and wheels worth over $50. In Brighton, Iowa, Bank Cashier L. B. Luithly reported that the man who broke into the Rubio Savings Bank took nothing more valuable than two fountain pens...
Other researchers had already transplanted the fecund rabbit's ova. But cows usually produce only one ovum at a time. Umbaugh perfected a process of "super-ovulation"-injecting the cows with a pituitary extract which causes them to produce an average...
...That Ruth Built," after his widow agreed (too late for most afternoon papers to report it) that he should lie in state there. Whether 82,000 people filed past his bier, or 97,000, or 115,000, depended on which paper you read. Reporters patrolled the shuffling line to extract suitably printable comment...