Word: frictions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...speed, heat from the engine and the friction of the airstream zipping over the canopy raises the inside temperature from 40 to 60 degrees. When the outside temperature is already high, this increase is enough to prostrate the pilot. Some ships have elaborate refrigeration systems to cool the cockpits...
...open ocean the long swells may pass almost unnoticed, since they do not rise to breaker height until the trough begins to scrape sea bottom. Then, as speed is reduced by friction, the water piles up into steep, precipitous peaks. Last week in Hawaii eyewitnesses guessed the tsunami ran as high as 100 feet. Best estimate: 45 feet. Either way, they were enough to smash the city of Hilo on the exposed northeast side of the island of Hawaii, kill some 200 of its inhabitants, deposit 14 feet of silt in its harbor and wriggling fish in its coconut palms...
Contact lenses worn by actors, athletes and people who don't want to wear spectacles have three principal drawbacks: 1) friction of the eye against the lens irritates the cornea, makes it difficult to wear the glasses more than eight consecutive hours; 2) high cost (up to $250); 3) fitting, which involves making a wax cast of the eyeball...
...Riddle. There were danger spots. The Middle East was one. It seemed to Vandenberg that Vishinsky was "less interested in helping Lebanon and Syria than he was in baiting France and Britain -less interested in peace at this point than he was in friction." Candidly, then, Vandenberg faced the question: "What is Russia...
...spaceship zooms off at slightly better than seven miles a second (twelve times as fast as an antiaircraft shell) it will have the force to escape entirely from the earth's gravitational field. Best method is to shoot through the dense lower air rather slowly, to reduce air friction; then shift into high above the atmosphere...