Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When the snail is crawling on glass, the action of its foot can be seen as a series of slow waves. The speed averages 2½ in. per minute, and the snail makes about 35 foot-waves to cover this distance. The tractive force is considerable. A snail can lift five times its weight up a vertical surface, and on the horizontal it can pull a toy wagon loaded with 200 times its weight. If 25 snails could be induced to crawl in the same direction at the same time, they could pull the weight of a good-sized...
...prostitution does not make it the equivalent of love. Is our industrial discontent not in fact the expression of a hunger for a work life that has meaning in terms of higher and more enduring spiritual values?" What the modern worker needs, according to Presbyterian Ohmann, is "skyhooks" to lift up his work-"something to believe in ... that will give meaning...
Hydroplanes, which weigh 105 pounds, differ from the 300 pound utilities in that they have an air tunnel down the bottom of the hull which provides an air lift, and thus less water contact...
...glass-enclosed "greenhouse"; two compressors began feeding air through tubes to small "pressure jets" at the tips of the three overhead rotor blades. As Noll opened the throttle, the fuel in the pods began burning in small, roaring jet gusts, expelling the hot air, spinning the rotor and lifting the aircraft off the ground. At 4,000 ft., ready for forward flight, Noll switched on the small pusher propeller, sited between the twin tail booms, and kept the rotor windmilling to supply extra lift. Coming in to land, he first slowed, then cut off the pusher, gave the rotors full...
...just now been pruned to a single volume and translated into English by Joel Carmichael, onetime OSS officer. The book does little to change the familiar picture, but, unlike most such tomes, it has an eyewitness excitement that makes it even harder to lay down than to lift...