Word: gs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...equals normal gravity) that strike during changes of direction or speed. They are felt when an airplane makes a turn or pulls out of a dive, when a rocket takes off, when any vehicle is braked or hits an obstacle. As man moves faster and faster, the Gs become more and more dangerous...
...Shepley and Pentagon Reporter Clay Blair over Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, each riding in a Lockheed F-94C. At 40,000 ft., the pilots went into a power dive. They broke through the sonic barrier, then pulled out of the dive at 20,000 ft. and 5½ Gs...
...thing the space doctors are sure of: human bodies and nervous systems resent fluctuations of gravity. Moderate increases are not too bad if they do not last long. The crews of Von Braun's shuttle rockets would have to withstand nine "Gs" (nine times normal gravity) for brief periods as they left the earth. They could survive by lying on their backs on contour couches, say the space doctors, but they would not enjoy...
...Dale Pontius GS '28, who taught here in the University's Government Department during the '30's, was arrested by Chicago police during Senator McCarthy's Monday night speech. He was charged with disorderly conduct for heckling and attempting to interrupt the speaker...
Brigadier General, GS Washington...