Word: motions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...science and the sheer fun of it, Zoologist Graham Hoyle of the University of Glasgow set about learning what puts the hop in the grasshopper. Writing in Scientific American, Hoyle tells how he used a slow-motion camera to analyze how the insect cocks its rear legs "by squatting with the femurs (thighs) doubled against the tibiae (shins)," rears up and takes off with a velocity of about 10 ft. per second. The jumping muscle of the grasshopper, which weighs only one twenty-fifth of a gram, develops "the astounding power of some 20,000 grams per gram...
...prop-driven RP-71 radios back target data it picks up by radar or infra-red sensory equipment. Night targets are lighted by a series of 300,000-candle-power flares, recorded by a motion-picture camera. When its mission is accomplished, the drone can be parachuted to earth, reused time and again. "These little fellows have four obvious pluses for the field commander," says an Army droneman. "They require no take-off or landing strip; they are effective at night, when the enemy makes his important moves; they are easily recoverable; and they are pilotless -precious life is being...
...Sputnik traveled back on great circle paths that somehow converged on the opposite side of the world. Suggests Carnegie's Harry W. Wells: "Energy from this concentrated area, presumably in the ionosphere, was then radiated or scattered to the receiving antennas so that the hot spot in motion appeared as a ghost satellite...
...latest and loudest of the film industry's frequent cries of wolf, Edwin Silverman, president of Essaness Theaters (whose chain has shrunk from 43 to 13 theaters), offered a prophecy of doom: "In my opinion, all major Hollywood studios engaged in the production of motion pictures for theaters, with the possible exception of one, will close within the next six months...
...motion must now be approved by the CRIMSON graduate board, by the Harvard and Radcliffe student councils, and by the Harvard and Radcliffe administrations before it can be put into effect...