Word: gust
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seize the moment, apparently reasons the first competitor. His ship rises rockily, climbs in a gust of wind, scars off toward the Business School. After three and a half minutes, the judges announces that as it has disappeared from sight, its flight is officially at an end. Later in the afternoon the report flashes about that the missing ship is found in the tower of Dunster House...
...most famed religious conversions since that of St. Paul, and probably the best-documented in modern times, was that of John Wesley, founder of Methodism. To a recent Roman Catholic student of Wesley, Rev. Maximin Piette, this conversion was "a gust of feeling so unimportant that Wesley might well have forgotten all about it had he not recorded it at the lime." Nevertheless, Wesley did record it, in words which Methodists have treasured to this...
...mouth as I once saw one of Clyde Beatty's lions do. "I asked you what ideas you had on the method of Thucydides as compared to that of Herodotus. "Why it was it was different." "How?" The word exploded in the classroom. The professor followed with a violent gust from his nose. Something nasty prompted Harold to blow his nose. Something nasty prompted Harold to blow his nose, too; it sounded like repartee...
...Mingalone picked Old Orchard Beach, Me., for secret experiments in overhead photography from a cluster of 30 hydrogen-filled stratosphere balloons. He had successfully ground out several reels over the local country club golf course while a ground crew towed him from spot to spot when suddenly a stiff gust snapped the 200-ft. sash-weight cord anchor line...
...gust tunnel is important because all airplanes experience their maximum loads when they encounter sudden gusts or "bumps." The gust tunnel faces upward and a small model is shot across 'its top at 50 m.p.h. Accelerometers and a fast camera record how it reacts. Gusts are also being measured by pocket-size gadgets called V-G recorders installed on many airline transports. The China Clipper has one, for example, which indicates that maximum gust velocity over the Pacific averages 30 ft. per sec. up & down...