Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...smaller brother came running out of his bedroom to see what was the matter. He fired again...
...This book," he wrote, "does not have a title but is a story of a boy who was fed up of living. His name? That doesn't matter. It's what he will do that will shock...
...trouble with liquid-fuel engines, says Ritchey, is their unreliability, which "is a matter of common knowledge to those who read newspapers." It is hard to make pump-fed engines much more powerful than they are now, and "the reliability of a single liquid-fuel engine is so low that even the most optimistic may quail at the idea of grouping more than a few turbopump systems into a clustered stage." Rocket engines using a solid propellant fire perfectly almost every time; they can be used in large clusters with expectation that all of them will do their duty...
...rule of thumb, the payload that reaches escape velocity will be one one-thousandth of the starting weight: about 21 tons. This will be enough weight allowance, says Ritchey, to send a crew around the moon in reasonable comfort and safety. When better solid propellants come along (just a matter of time), Ritchey is prepared to design even better space rockets...
Wade Hunnicutt. All this his wife Hannah knows, as well as the whittlers down on the square. Now she lives for two things: to raise her son Theron nobly, while deepening his love for her, and to nourish the son's respect for his errant father as a matter of pride and principle...