Word: powerful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Power Elite pass you by? Come to 14 Plympton St. tonight and get your foot on the escalator...
...varsity soccer team will be going for its second win in three games this afternoon at 3 p.m. when it faces Boston University in a home contest. B.U. is not known as a soccer power, and the Crimson should triumph in impressive style...
...aristocracy to chastize and control the stiff-necked rabble of the town. Thus, in the movie version, Proctor chooses to die for a cause rather than to preserve his own integrity. This distortion, coupled with an over-simplification of the motives of each character, considerably lessens the dramatic power of Miller's play...
...president), developed a new short-stroke V-8 front engine with an increased compression. It proved so successful that it set the basic design for most of G.M.'s high-compression engines now in use. It was 221 Ibs. lighter (25%) than the Caddy's previous power plant, yet stepped up power by 7% to 160 h.p., and stretched fuel economy at first by 15%-and eventually to 19 miles per gallon. But Cole still hankered to perfect a rear engine for cars. In his spare time he designed a tank powered by an air-cooled, horizontally opposed...
...just 15 weeks Cole and his crew designed a V-8 that cut the weight of the basic Chevy engine from 550 Ibs. to 506 Ibs., but increased power from 123 h.p. to 162 h.p. "We did not build a test model because there was not time to experiment," Cole recalls. "That's how crazy and confident we were." The engine proved to have bugs. But it also had zip, and when the bugs were eliminated, the zip gave Chevy sales a push...