Word: flips
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Above left: Butler does a practice back flip with Briggs assisting. Frederick A. Webster '35 is holding ropes which will support Butler if he lands wrong. Webster has made his outdoor gym and equipment available to the cheerleaders for several afternoons each week this year...
Left: The same flip is practiced at a session in the stadium later in the week...
...winter day in Labrador some 30 years ago, a fur trader named Clarence Birdseye caught a fish, watched it freeze instantly in the 50° below zero temperature. Days later, he dropped the fish into a pail of water to thaw it out, was amazed to see the fish flip its tail and swim about. Birdseye decided that he had "unlocked one of nature's secrets"-and also hit upon a new way to preserve food. When he returned to civilization (i.e., his home in Gloucester, Mass.), he developed a mechanical quick-freezing process and thereby laid the foundation...
...Lucky Lady II, flew 94 hours and 23,452 miles nonstop around the world from Carswell Air Force Base, Texas. It refueled from B-29 tankers over the Azores, Dhahran (Saudi Arabia), Manila and Hawaii. *An Ohio State classmate: Milton Caniff, creator of comic-strip Airmen Terry, Flip Cor-kin, Steve Canyon. -A bad sinus condition years ago paralyzed some of LeMay's facial muscles, making smiling difficult and exaggerating his reputation for ferocity. He has long used a pipe or a cigar to anchor these muscles...
...intervening "cataract space") rediscovered; not until the 18th Century was a whole defective lens removed. Over the centuries, Dr. Kirby found, the number of instruments invented for the removal of cataracts (e.g., a glass tube and a hollow needle to withdraw the cataract by suction; a metal loop to flip it out) rivaled the number of operations performed...