Word: modelled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dracones have proved to be surprisingly seaworthy. A 67-ft. model was towed out into a full gale and showed no signs of distress, although the tug that towed it had to run for shelter. When making a sharp turn, a Dracone does not swing like a ship; its fabric forms a kink that moves from bow to stern...
...design Stephens finally picked, after long sessions with seven models in the testing tanks at Hoboken's Stevens Institute of Technology, shows he had his weather eye cocked more on September than on summer. "Columbia differs from Vim only in a matter of inches," says he. But inches are as vital to a racing hull as to a fashion model. Columbia's bow sweeps gracefully into a full-bodied hull-a shape that helps her go swiftly to windward against a running sea. Stephens' calculations show that Columbia should do her best in the heavy weather that...
...gypsy woman first sang the song to Folklorist John A. Lomax in Fort Worth, and in no time he made it one of the most famous cowboy songs in the land. Traveling in a model A Ford, with his young son Alan as an occasional companion, he took the song with him on his far-ranging folk-song safaris in the 1930's, twanged it at campfires and from college platforms. Two decades later in Dublin, carrying on his father's research, Alan Lomax heard Irish Folklorist Seamus Ennis sing an almost identical Irish lay about...
...violin practice, regular composition (mostly unpublished chamber works). He is already working on scores he will conduct three years from now ("The music must sink in"). He memorizes all scores, usually on a first reading, and claims to have such absolute pitch that he can identify the make and model of most cars by ear. "I drive my car mostly by ear," he says, "and shift gears when the pitch of the motor reaches B flat...
...feeding coded instructions into computers, a flight instructor can suddenly and without warning create emergency conditions, such as brake or control-surface locking, icing, failures of power. To lend realism, a TV picture of a huge scale model of an airfield shows the pilot how the appearance of the ground changes as he takes off and lands. In addition to United, eleven other lines will school their pilots for the jet age on Link trainers, both for the DC-8 and Boeing 707. The trainers will save the lines huge sums, since it costs only $36 an hour to learn...