Word: loop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...better system is to fly an airplane over a curved course in a part of a gentle outside loop. If the speed and sharpness of the curve are correct, centrifugal force exactly balances the earth's gravitation. Everything in the airplane, including the pilot, suddenly becomes weightless...
...second loop at the lake, Reider held a 60-yard lead, with Norris and McLean matching strides only five yards in front of the onrushing Hillier...
Yale became the question mark of the Ivy loop as unheralded Connecticut came dangerously close to upsetting the reportedly strong Elis, 19 to 14. The Blue was in trouble throughout the contest, and trailed 14 to 6 at the half. The game ended with UConn on the Yale three yard line...
...Chicago, testy old (87) Architect Frank Lloyd Wright casually disclosed his latest high-flown fantasy: a one-mile-high, 510-story office building for the Loop. Topped with a 330-ft. TV antenna, it would be four times taller than the Empire State Building. "It's perfectly scientific, and perfectly feasible," he said, brushing aside questions on how he would get 100,000 office workers in and out of the building on time, or what he would do about the planes that cross the area at considerably less than 5,600 ft. "If you're going to have...
...small hunks of hull. Air flows under the almost flat bellies, and the boats try their best to take off. Almost any bump can send them soaring. In a qualifying run for last year's Gold Cup, Driver Lou Fageol rode Slo-Mo-Shun V into an airborne loop, parted company with his boat, got beaten up so badly when he slapped the water that he quit racing on the spot. In a qualifying run with Slo-Mo IV last week, Driver Joseph Taggart ran into the rippling wake of a small patrol boat, barely survived the wreck...