Word: mins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Armed with electric clippers, an ex -perienced sheep shearer can completely strip the wool from a sheep in three min utes. In Australia, where his specialty is a legendary profession as well as a sheer necessity, a champion shearer soon becomes something of a national hero...
...subcommittee found that mechanics "beat the book" up to 75% of the time. One flat-rate manual, for example, puts the time for replacing rear springs on a 1965 Chevy II at 2 hr. 36 min., though the work often takes less than 2 hr. Some mechanics, of course, are skillful enough to finish the job that fast. Others beat the book only by doing the work sloppily...
...board, making certain that they are operating properly and that the duplicate and backup systems are in working order. On their second revolution around the earth, if no problems have arisen, the Apollo crew will reignite the S-4B rocket engine over the Pacific near Hawaii. In a 5-min. 11-sec. burning period, the S-4B will accelerate to an "escape" velocity of 24,200 m.p.h., pushing Apollo out of earth orbit and off toward the moon...
...will remain of the 3,100-ton vehicle that left Cape Kennedy-will glide downward along a curving 1,300-mile path, deploy its main parachutes at 10,000 ft., and drop gently into the Pacific. Elapsed time for the great lunar adventure: six days, 2 hr. and 52 min...
...took officials 2 min. to clear the field so that Harvard could line up for the conversion attempt. Needing two points to tie, Champi got them with a pass to Varney. There it ended. Harvard 29, Yale 29. In the wildest, most exciting college football game of the year, nobody and everybody...