Word: porousness
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Cops to Kids. Corfam is already one of the most tested and complex chem ical substances ever created. Porous, scuff-resistant, water-repellent, shape-retaining - the properties are an ad writ er's dream - it is basically a combina tion of polyester and polyurethane made into sheets resembling leather by an incredibly intricate process. Before put ting its shoes on the market, Du Pont passed out 19,000 pairs to human test ers who ranged from the Newburgh police force, through its own salesmen and secretaries, to kindergarten kids...
...Pratt-and-Whitney engines are as remarkable as its wings. The two turbojets have intakes six feet in diameter that gulp enormous amounts of the thin air at high altitudes. Lightened by liberal use of titanium, the engines have hollow turbine blades made of porous material. Air or some other gas forced through the pores keeps the blades from softening, despite the fact that fuel is burned at far higher temperatures than can be tolerated by most engines. The higher temperature yields several thousand more pounds of thrust without added cost in fuel...
...Porous to every breath of the world...
...member of the team admitted, Harvard didn't seem to believe that beating Cornell was possible. With a ten-point lead they still didn't believe it. The Big Red scored 11 straight and gradually increased their margin to 40-33 at the half, driving repeatedly through Harvard's porous defense for easy baskets...
Undaunted by Los Angeles' 110° heat, Coach Bud Wilkinson's ground-hugging Sooners romped at will through the porous U.S.C. line, handed the Trojans their first loss in more than a year. Other scores...