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Word: fin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...altitude record was set by Captain Joe B. Jordan of Huntsville, Texas in a Lockheed F-104C. Altitude tries require lots of advance planning. The ship was considerably rejiggered. It got a slightly larger fin (which will be standard on new production models) to keep it from yawing in thin air, and the intake duct was modified. To prepare for the record-breaking flight, Lockheed and the Air Force worked out a new flight plan. They decided that the F-104C should climb only to 40,000 ft., where the air is still dense enough to give the jet maximum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Records Regained | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

...this fall's intercollegiate game fish seminar in Wedgeport, Nova Scotia, a Crimson fishing team caught six pounds more of blue-fin tuna than the Eli anglers, who placed last in their own invitation tournament...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Fishermen Hook Elis in Match | 12/2/1959 | See Source »

...rest of the TV show is not quite so certain. On the picture tube his man lives a little too high, operates with a little too much fash. The original would have looked at the posh bachelor apartment, the white convertible, the sharp wardrobe, and bet the lonely fin in his pocket that this guy was on the take from some wrongos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: These Gunns for Hire | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

...tail the fin the wing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bang Bong Bing | 9/7/1959 | See Source »

...shelf, his three brothers quickly made it back to safety and stood up to watch Masami's progress. Some ten yards behind him, but rapidly closing the gap, a glistening black triangle cut through the waves. Moments later Masami's brothers screamed with horror when the dorsal fin slipped from sight; the shark had dived to attack from below. Warned by their cries, Masami abruptly flailed his arms backward, and the shark's jaws snapped on empty air. As the fish flashed by, Masami instinctively wrapped his arms around its slippery middle and hung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: The Giant Killers | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

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