Word: gate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mediocre ballplayers, one or two stalwarts and ex-Boy Wonder Bucky Harris as manager, he tub-thumped his team until he got the nickname "Rah Rah" Cox. For no apparent reason, the Phillies won some games ; until the end of May they were in the first division and the gate boomed...
...city that St. Jerome called the "clearest light of the universe." Once Rome's terror-shaken citizens had bought off the barbarian with ransom of gold, silver, silk, skins, and 3,000 Ib. of pepper. Now, by stealth or treason, Alaric's men burst the Salarian Gate. For three days and nights they pillaged palaces and temples, dragged Romans into slavery. Moved perhaps by awe, they spared the precious vessels which "belonged to St. Peter," respected the sanctuary of Christian churches, did not fire Rome's noble buildings. But when their booty-laden wagons trundled away, they...
...compass-oldest known navigating instrument-has been revolutionized. Last week Bendix Aviation Corp. announced a new automatic compass that makes the old magnetic needle* look as obsolete as a warrior's spear. The new "gyro flux gate" compass, designed especially for aircraft, is already at work guiding United Nations flyers unerringly to their targets...
...Different Matter. The gyro flux gate compass, on which Bendix engineers worked seven years, is based on an entirely different principle. Exactly how it works is still a military secret (at least one of the instruments has fallen into Axis hands, but its inventors believe it will take Axis scientists years to figure it out). Its basic parts are a triangular set of coils and a gyroscope. The function of the gyroscope (which spins at 10,000 revolutions a minute) is simply to keep the instrument level during a plane's turns and lunges. The coils, which replace...
Since all seats are unreserved, those wishing to sit on the Harvard side were urged by H. A. A. Director Carroll F. Getchell to enter Soldiers Field by gate 20, between Briggs Cage and Dillon Field House...