Word: propell
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thirty years ago, would you have predicted that today's airplanes would feature "bypass" jet engines, fuel efficient turbines which propel them at speeds up to 700 mph? Radcliffe graduate Helen Thomas '28 did just that, copping a $50,000 prize in TWA's "Cosmic Contest...
Their 2-1 record in the preliminary round robin was enough to propel the spikers into the next round of action against Brown, which hadn't defeated Harvard in five years...
...Navy focused on the satellite boosters rather than on searching for the shuttle crew compartment or the boosters that propel the spaceship because "they're pretty sure of what they've got there, and it's in relatively shallow water. So, it's a bird-in-the-hand type of situation," Norton said...
Close calls, but the precarious one-goal edge held, giving the booters hopes of scoring an upset that might propel them back into the nation...
...second-story suite, freshmen lined up on the front steps of Weid Hall to cheer on the wind--"Go! Go! Go!"--as it snapped a half-dozen trees. Freshmen Adam Green and Daniel A. H. McGiffin even rigged up a windskateboard, using a towel as a sail to propel them across the Yard's debrisspattered walkways...