Word: propell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...comedy of the English drawing-room genre, but before long it may be seen that the author's grasp has caught up with his reach and the play regrettably wanders far a field into the less stimulating realm of force. The perennial vivacity of Helen Hayes does much to propel a vehicle that in spots lacks lubrication, and Henry Stephenson gives the wheels of comedy many a timely flick of the finger...
Helene Madison swims "free-style." which means she uses that adaptation of the Australian crawl which U. S. coaches have worked out as the fastest way in which a human being can propel itself through water. A swimmer using this stroke must have long, supple legs for much of the power comes from the hips, knees and ankles. The arms are used somewhat as in the trudgeon stroke. Helene Madison's feet are narrower than those of Johnny Weissmuller, famed male freestyler, but long enough to be good paddles. She has big hands and a tall, athletic body...