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Word: gs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...round with a cab twelve feet in diameter at the end of a 50-foot horizontal arm. When the arm is revolving 48 times a minute, the cab will circle at 173 m.p.h. At this speed everything inside it will be subjected to "a centrifugal force of 40 "Gs," much more than the most rugged man can stand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Human Centrifuge | 9/30/1946 | See Source »

...normal gravitational force to which the human body is accustomed. When an airplane makes a turn, it subjects its occupants to a centrifugal or "quasi-gravitational" force measured in additional Gs. During a "five G turn," the pilot's body weighs five times as much as normal. The Navy's gruesome merry-go-round will determine how much a human body can weigh and still function. Without a protective "G suit" (TIME, Sept. 23), the average man blacks out at about 5^ Gs. His pulled-down facial tissues make him look 20 years older...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Human Centrifuge | 9/30/1946 | See Source »

...that, of course, clinches the argument. HARVARD DARTMOUTH Barnes (186), l.e. r.e., Crowley (180) Hibbard (210), l.t. r.t., Daukas (206) Guldaitiz (178), l.g. r.f., Holmes (178) Andersen (160) c., Brown (180) Kamp (187), r.g. l.g., M'Kinnon (173) Stannard (190), r.t. l.t., And'rs'n (192) C'mml'gs (181), r.e. l.e., M'nah'n (182) Anders'n (180), q.b. q.b., Carey (182) L. Flynn (155), t.b. w.b., Kast (170) Wilson (190), w.b. t.b., Wolfe (185) Perkins (182), f.b. f.b., Douglas...

Author: By Burton VAN Vort, | Title: CRIMSON AT SEASON TURNING POINT | 10/17/1942 | See Source »

Somewhere along his rise from sewer worker to political boss of Chicago, Edward Joseph Kelly learned not to drop his gs, acquired a hard, shining polish. To his machine's reputation for ballot-stuffing, patronage-grabbing, "muscling" the votes of prostitutes and gamblers, there still clings a sewer-like smell. But the sanctified odor of a Senatorial toga, thought Ed Kelly, might cover that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What About That Toga? | 2/9/1942 | See Source »

...Anthony Drexel Biddle received a present in London for the relief of child air-raid victims in Hawaii. The present: gs i id in pennies. The donors: child air-raid victims in the East End Youth Hostel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Free Agent | 12/29/1941 | See Source »

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