Word: gloving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...discussed system remained largely a dream for 50 years. But last week Northrop Aircraft, Inc. recorded the results of seven years of experimentation with "low drag boundary layer control." After elaborate tests with models in wind tunnels, Northrop engineers fitted the wing "of an F94 jet fighter with a "glove" containing twelve slots running lengthwise along the wing. A suction pump driven from the main engine pulled air into the slots and pushed it out astern with the rest of the jet's gases, adding a little to the thrust. The reduction of drag was extraordinary, even when...
...After the Supreme Court decision reversing the contempt-of-Congress conviction of Union Organizer John Watkins for refusing to identify Communists he had known, an attorney for Pulitzer Prizewinning Playwright Arthur Miller observed that the Watkins decision "fits the [Miller] case like a glove." But in Washington last week, U.S. District Judge Charles F. McLaughlin, while dropping one count, refused to set aside the other count of Miller's contempt-of-Congress conviction. McLaughlin's reason, which gave the narrowest possible meaning to the Supreme Court's Watkins decision: Miller, while before a House Un-American Activities...
...Baseball," Birdie told his men, "is exactly what Branch Rickey said it was: 'A race between a man and a ball.' Baseball is a game of inches. A guy catches the ball on the tip of his glove, a batter tops a ball and beats a throw to first. Or a fellow gets up in the ninth and comes through with a liner between third and short-he's a hero. Two inches the other way and he's a bum because he hit into a double play. The only thing...
Brand-new grandparents Harry and Bess Truman journeyed from Independence, Mo. to Manhattan's Doctors Hospital, on the way acquired a baseball and glove for their just-arrived grandson, Clifton Truman Daniel, first child of their daughter Margaret and New York Timesman son-in-law Clifton Daniel. Asked if he hoped the baby would grow up to be President, the ex-Chief Executive said he wouldn't wish that on anybody, later gave a no-nonsense description of the young Democrat: "It looks like all babies two days...
...newspaper financial writer. After Young won in 1954, he and Phillips fell out (TIME, Dec. 26, 1955) because, according to Young, Phillips failed to get the top Central job he expected. Phillips set about getting revenge. Though a battery of high-priced Central lawyers had never laid a legal glove on Young, Phillips soon had Young hanging on the ropes...