Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...span, flew it so successfully last fall that the U.S. Army popped the queer plane out of sight for further development. Reason: some engineers estimate that the plane, lacking a tail, has 40% less head resistance than a conventional plane, and every square inch of its body contributes to lift. Hence designers believe the flying wing can either
...More doubling up on the way to church. In Richmond, Va. motorists have put a sticker on their windshields: "I'm going to St. Mark's. Can I give you a lift...
Capture. In Troy, N.Y., a few hours after somebody stole Dr. Vincent L. Boldt's car, a stranger gave him a lift. Presently the doctor recognized the car he was riding in, directed the driver to the police station...
...Crazy. Working on a grant from the Otho Sprague Institute, Dr. Masserman rigged up an automatic feeding apparatus which dropped some food into the feedbox of a glass cage every time a light flashed on. He then trained cats, one at a time, to lift the lid of the feedbox whenever the light flashed. After the cats were conditioned to associate light with food, he shot a harmless blast of air into the cage at the moment the cat reached for the lid. This gale at mealtime frightened the cats. After repeated frustrations the animals associated the feedbox and signal...
When the Government said that it had counted no fewer than 2,017 parallels between X-Ray and Nazi short-wave broadcasts, Editor Asher replied that he had never listened to a Nazi broadcast in his life. All he did, said he, was to lift most of his stuff from such "great metropolitan newspapers" as Hearst's and the Chicago Tribune. "In most instances,"he confessed. "I did not give them credit, but in some cases I did. Where I didn't print them identically I would read them and summarize them." His paraphrasing technique was simple: "What...