Word: looping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME'S Wilmott Ragsdale wasn't sure you could do a loop in an Army glider until he went up in one at the new glider school at Twentynine Palms, California -suddenly felt his safety belt tighten and saw the desert above...
...gliders are turned loose to soar, dropping a wing to lose altitude quickly, gliding downward to gain speed (which may reach 90 m.p.h.), or "picking up a thermal" to rise. Sometimes they even fly in formation. Another man-made addition to flight skill is the complete loop-the-loop, as exciting in a glider as in the oldtime barnstormers' crates. (Two pilots practicing a dog fight at Twentynine Palms -not a usual glider function -crashed and were killed when their wings touched.) A glider pilot, landing, keeps his plane balancing on its single wheel for about...
When the doctors have a patient with a gangrenous foot or strangulated hernia (protruding loop of gut), they wheel him into an operating room, inject fluorescein, a reddish dye, into the vein of his arm. Then they darken the room, shine an ultraviolet lamp on the gangrenous area. The dye should make a circuit of the patient's blood stream in 20 seconds. If the gut or foot is still alive and receiving fresh blood, it will glow yellow green. Then it is safe to tuck the gut back in place, or stimulate circulation...
Leaving behind a trail of incredulous stares and dropped jaws, an ugly man from yesterday waddled one evening through Chicago's Loop, made a round of nightclubs, moved off again into limbo. Pudgy Al Capone was discreetly revisiting his onetime kingdom...
...nine meets Boston University on April 11, and then travels to West Point, Princeton and Columbia, to play three games in four days. The team returns to face Northeastern on the Soldiers Field diamond, and then opens a long home stand against the members of the Eastern Intercollegiate loop...