Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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According to the up-to-date method of measuring airplane speeds (in "mach numbers"), the second flight of the Skystreak was no better than the first. During both flights it reached "mach .828." This means that both times it moved at 82.8% of the speed that sound would travel through the same air. While Commander Caldwell was flying the Skystreak, the temperature of the air was only 75° F. But when Major Carl took the controls, it was 94° F. Sound travels faster in hot air, so the speed of sound at the course moved up too, keeping...
...rainmaking method was developed only last year at General Electric Co.'s Schenectady, N.Y. laboratories by Engineer Vincent J. Schaefer and Nobel Prizewinner Dr. Irving Langmuir (TIME...
...courses included enunciation, programing and "how we acquire balance." Students sat in on rehearsals and broadcasts, got pointers on microphone technique, learned how to tap time properly with the feet (the heel, not the toe). They were also exposed to such Waring inspirations as Tone-Syllables, a phonetic method of lyric singing ("Mah-ee Bahn-nee lah-ee-zo-oo-vuhr thee o-oo-shun"). By the end of the eight-week semester, all the students, including eight nuns, were fairly groovy...
Leneman paints with emotional haste and seldom spends more than a day on one picture. "My method is practical," he says. "My paintings play and sing and dance." Critics were not inclined to go that far, but they did generally agree that the paintings have a creamy, baroque sweetness all their own. Even if it adds up to little more than a sticky hobby, Leneman's art works wonders with a method otherwise usually used to keep kids busy on rainy afternoons...
With "assurances" being given by the University that an alternative method of financing would be supplied in place of the old "purveyor" lists of advertisers, plans this week went ahead for publication of the '47-'48 Album and the '51 Register...