Word: halfe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...upper surface of the conventional wing, which has a convex curve to provide lift.* When the plane reaches about 80% of the speed of sound, however, the velocity of the air flowing over the upper side of the wing reaches the sonic barrier. A shock wave forms about half way back from the wing's leading edge, disturbing the airflow and increasing drag-the resistance of air to the plane's passage...
...half-serious flights of fancy, humorists have lately envisioned an economic future in which International Everything, Inc. and about a dozen similar finance-manufacturing-retailing combines take over half of the nation's business. Corporate consolidation has a long way to go to reach such extremes, but it is certainly moving in that direction at an accelerating speed. Never before have U.S. companies been caught in such a powerful and persistent tide of mergers, raids and takeover attempts. The volume of mergers doubled last year, when firms paid a record $43 billion-mostly in securities-to acquire...
...less odd and puzzling than his works, as this solid, sometimes pedestrian biography by Russian-born David Magarshack makes clear. As a founding father of Russian literature, Pushkin behaved more like a rakehell uncle. A tiny (5 ft. 3 in.), edgy man with fingernails as long as claws and half-simian features, Pushkin pursued all the known excesses with prodigious energy. Though he was ugly, he exerted a vast sexual attraction through his sheer intensity. A fellow student recalled that at the touch of a dancing partner's hand at a ball, Pushkin's "eyes blazed, he panted...
...return full time to her job as director of the Good Housekeeping Institute, is indeed a woman who knows perspiration stains. And should you need any proof of her distinction in this field, just take a look at this month's Good Housekeeping, available at Woolworths every-where for half-a-buck. As director of this monthly's Institute, Miss Rogers is chief dispenser of the Good Housekeeping Seal, which is given to products worthy of a money-back guarantee--items which, coincidentally, happen to advertise in Good Housekeeping...
WHEN Boston After Dark's staff of five moved into their Boylston Street office last April they thought they had found a mansion--but now they're looking for more space. In April they were considering using half the rooms for a movie theatre, but by this Wednesday they were pushing aside cans full of garbage to make room for their eighteenth staff member. The cans of garbage are hidden away in the barest of the eleven makeshirt rooms--for BAD's office is colorful, alive; walls are covered with posters, clippings, day-glow pink and green buttons. While most...