Word: feet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Neutrons." He found, said Jordan, "a lot of blueprints and maps and engineering drawings and scientific data" labeled "Oak Ridge, Manhattan Engineering District." Major Jordan had never heard of the Manhattan Project, but he noted the words down. He inspected a blueprint and noted that it read: "Walls five feet thick of lead and water to control flying neutrons." He also found, he said, a note on White House stationery, "which impressed me because it had the name of Harry Hopkins printed in the upper left-hand corner. I jotted down part of the message. It said...
...really precious things are thought and sight, not pace. It does a bullet no good to go fast; and a man, if he be truly a man, no harm to go slow; for his glory is not at all in going, but in being." -John Ruskin Six thousand feet above Arkansas the left outboard engine of the big DC-6 began to pop dangerous orange flames. Unhurriedly, as became his 52 years and his 20,000 flying hours, Pilot Laurens Claude flicked the switches, cutting the bad power plant and feathering its propeller. On her three good engines, American Airlines...
...adapted, Andean man can perform amazing quantities of work at altitudes where non-adapted lowlanders fall gasping and retching. The somber-eyed, long-exploited descendant of the Incas is in fact a sort of superman. "After eight hours' hard work in mines at more than 16,000 feet above sea level," says Dr. Monge, "his idea of relaxation is a soccer match in which he sometimes plays barefooted...
...team is not a question mark club. On successive nights it walloped the MIT freshmen, 74 to 40, and Dean Academy, 60 to 35. The Terriers have only one starter over six feet, but three of the first team received "most outstanding schoolboy player" awards in Connecticut, Maine, and New Hampshire...
...Harry Cleverly decided to pull a fast one. He put on his first line against Harvard's third. For 30 seconds they put a sustained rush on the Crimson goal, and then wing Carl Timpson grabbed the puck at his own blue line and took a shot from 20 feet out at the BU cage. DiBlasio was in perfect position for the rebound and scored the final goal...