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...invincibility; nor would they allow the Japs to get away with the various raw deals which they have handed Russia in the Far East. Instead they would remain discreetly silent, sure that they could give the little yellow men a resounding kick on their posteriors that would speedily propel them back to their native islands...
...volts which lightning often strikes at their experimental station in the Alps (TIME, June 29). The great problem has been to store up stupendous amounts of electricity which could be sent crashing through stout tubes. If power were great enough physicists are sure that they could propel heavy protons as well as light electrons at naked
...Later, with the bar at 6:9, considerably higher than one of the judges could reach, Spitz tried for a record. Justifiably assisted by a little luck, as jumpers must be to break world's records, Spitz's stocky legs are some day almost sure to propel him across a bar at 6:9. They did not do so last week; his 6:7 won the championship...
...wanted to put myself, as a matter of personal pride, in a position where I was not dependent upon the income I had inherited. I tackled politics because I concluded that a man with money should justify his existence and take a turn at the oars to propel the civic boat...
...newsmen stood behind protecting steel walls, stoppered their ears and watched a small cannon-like device vomit gases with a nerve-shattering roar. Two minutes of the din was all they could endure. The "cannon," mounted on an engine block, was Inventor Paul Heylandt's latest rocket motor propelled by burning of liquid oxygen and an alcoholic liquid. It was only two feet long, weighed 15 Ib. Installed in a hermetically sealed cabin airplane for stratospheric flight, the inventor said, it would propel the craft from Berlin to any point in Europe...