Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reasoning: if New England helps the states that stand to benefit from the seaway, then those states might be more willing to help lift New England from its economic slough. Soon to follow Kennedy's lead was New Jersey's G.O.P. Senator Alexander Smith, who said he would switch from opposition to the bill as a matter of loyalty to Eisenhower...
...this height, the airplane (presumably rocket-propelled) must fly at something like Mach 10 (more than 7,000 m.p.h.) to get enough lift out of the thin air. When the pilot bails out, however, the thinness of the air comes to his rescue: he does not feel so much shock as he would when leaving a present-day airplane at comparatively low altitude...
...Some 90% of its 400 regular pupils are girls. Balanchine shakes his head sadly about this, thinks it is because U.S. parents have an idea that dancing "is sissy," despite the fact that the male dancers must be strong enough to lift ballerinas over their heads. "Look at a pitcher," he says. "His windup is just as much of a dance, if you look at it in slow motion, as anything our boys do." An Exercise in Nostalgia. From his school, Choreographer Balanchine can pick the kind of girls he always wanted for his company. His favorite qualities: 1) long...
CONVERTIPLANE, a cross between a helicopter and a fixed-wing plane, is taking shape at Bell Aircraft's Fort Worth plant under a joint Army-Air Force contract. The new aircraft will have propellers that tilt horizontally to lift it straight up like a helicopter, then tilt forward to pull the plane ahead at 150 m.p.h...
...chair lift, down by force of gravity-what has that got to do with honest physical culture?" demanded Team Leader Constantin Sorokin, one of four "managers" accompanying the girls. "Ski lifts and the like would not be approved in the Soviet Union. Sports without toil and sweat, without the satisfaction of self-denial and self-conquest, are nothing more than an amusement." With that, Comrade Sorokin put his six strapping girls (four blondes, two brunettes) through conditioning exercises, starting at the crack of dawn, that left other competitors gasping...