Word: hub
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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YAK9 (Yakovlev), single-engine World War II interceptor. Speed, 442 m.p.h.; rate of climb, 4,000 ft. a min.; ceiling, 36,000 ft.; range, 800 miles; armament, one hub-firing 20-mm. cannon, two 12.7-mm. machine guns. Production discontinued, but still being used by satellite air forces and as advanced trainers in Russia...
...just one of its five segments. It was built low because of the nearby Washington airport, with stairways and ramps instead of elevators* to save wartime materials, and with five sides to add wall space without adding walking time (the way to save steps is to walk around the hub-like ring to a numbered corridor, then walk out the spoke to the proper ring). Each of its five outer walls is roughly the length of three football fields, and in all, its corridors stretch for 17½ miles...
...Tradition" dies not necessarily imply the colorful fluttering of Tree Day or the hub-bub of hooprolling, but a certain pattern of conformity that the Wellesley girl, in spite of her acclamation of freedom, slips into until the habit becomes a part of the responsibility...
...along the Worcester Turnpike and other main highways. The closing of Ted Madden's range which was next to the Business School has caused some inconvenience, but the Harvard man can locate a driving range or pitch and putt course by driving for ten minutes along any of the Hub's great spokes...
...eastern flank of the peninsula, U.N. naval forces bore the brunt of probing the enemy, sapping his buildup, keeping him as much off balance as possible. The port of Wonsan, 80 miles above the parallel and a key traffic hub, was under continuous fire; by week's end it had endured 43 consecutive days of bombardment, a naval record exceeding that achieved in the siege of Vicksburg.* Rear Admiral Allan E. Smith, in command of the naval task force off Wonsan, described the operation: "In Wonsan, you cannot walk on the streets. You cannot sleep any time...