Word: meteored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...promptly won 28 games with the Philadelphia Phillies, a freshman record that has never been approached. Grover Cleveland Alexander, with fireball, fast curve, boundless self-confidence, and a big wad of chewing tobacco tucked in the corner of his grinning mouth, hit the National League like a meteor, and managed to keep his big-league glow for 20 years...
...Sapphire seemed to be a prize. Shown publicly only last month, it has a thrust of 7,200 Ibs., or 1,000 Ibs. more than Pratt & Whitney's improved Nene. Britain's Gloster Meteor 8 fighter, powered by two Sapphires, reportedly can climb from take-off to 40,000 ft. in four minutes. Wright also was licensed to build Armstrong Siddeley's best turboprop engines, the "Python," the "Mamba" and the "Double Mamba." In addition, the two companies agreed to "exchange knowledge" on research, technical information and products for seven years...
Great Spirit. One Indian finding was negative, and damaging to a colorful legend-that the meteor crater near Canyon Diablo in Arizona was feared and shunned superstitiously by the Indians. Legend has it that the crater was regarded as the place where the Great Spirit appeared as a huge ball of fire and plunged into the earth. This story, according to Professor Lincoln La Paz, meteor expert of the University of New Mexico, even penetrated scientific writings and was used as "proof" that the meteor fell at a date when the region had human inhabitants to witness its fall...
...announcing that he had found, close to the lip of the crater, a pit house of prehistoric, 1000 A.D. Indians who obviously did not fear the place too much to live there. He suspects that the legend was invented recently by white men. Geological evidence indicates that the meteor probably fell more than 50,000 years ago, when it is unlikely that humans were around to be frightened...
Fred L. Whipple, associate professor of Astronomy and chairman of the department, has been raised to a full professor ship, Provost Buck announced last night. Whipple, a member of the faculty for 18 years, is currently heading the University's meteor project for the Navy...