Word: motionlessness
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...blimps now in convoy service comprise what the Navy calls the K Class. They are of 416,000 cu. ft., are powered with two airplane engines, can hover motionless in the air or make 55 m.p.h...
...which blimpmen call "the car," is fitted out with airline luxury-three bunks, chrome chairs, cookstove. There is a reason for these comforts. Effective watch is a terrible strain, especially when the lookout must scan not only the surface, but underwater-for U-boats have a habit of lying motionless on the continental shelf in daytime. Consequently blimp observers can stand watch only a little over an hour at a time, are encouraged to doze during the off watches. Any comfort they can be given is not wasted...
...noble Lords stared motionless at the floor, while Lord Portsea waited, one hand raised. Finally he whispered: "There is no reply. On your heads be it. I beg leave to withdraw." He sat down. His old friend Viscount Bledisloe, 74, walked over and pressed his hand...
...travels around the center of the Milky Way at 109 miles per second, i.e., 36% slower than astronomers formerly computed (Nicholas U. Mayall of the University of California)-if the far-off globular star clusters, against which he measured the Sun's motion, are themselves motionless. Mayall also confirmed "earlier evidence that our entire Milky Way is in rapid rotation around the distant center of Sagittarius." But he now suspects that the entire Milky Way may weigh only half as much as observers have believed. Sighed a New York Times headline: "Earth's Significance Diminishes...
...suddenly Vag's head cleared; the room became silent and motionless; the chair maintained a dignified silence. Vag reviewed the events of the day with delicious relish. It had started out as an ordinary day, nothing strange, nothing unusual. Vag had got up, gone to class, gone to sleep, gone home, gone back to bed. He forgot just when it was that he had got the news, or how, but he could never forget what that news was. Four B's! He rolled the words over and over on his tongue, four B's, four B's, four...