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Word: hr (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Example: Duck traveling 50 m.p.h. 50 yds. from muzzle of gun. Shot charge at 900 ft. per sec. requires 1/6 sec. to travel 50 yds. Duck at 50 m.p.h. travels 264,000 ft. per hr.-73 1/3 ft. per sec. or 12 2/9 ft. in 1/6 sec. If you shoot directly at him you are mathematically certain to miss him 122/9...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 13, 1930 | 1/13/1930 | See Source »

...minence by bringing in Pilot Bernt Balchen, who actually flew the Byrd ship to the South Pole, or by pointing to Endurance Flyers Dale ("Red") Jackson and Forest O'Brien who kept the St. Louis Robin aloft longer than any living thing has ever flown (420 hr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Man-of-the-Year | 1/6/1930 | See Source »

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