Word: propellent
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...also making such duds as No Time for Comedy and They Met in Bombay. She says, jauntily, "I'll match my flops with anybody," and adds: "There are only two ways to get ahead in Hollywood. You either have to get one great picture a year-these propel you forward-or your impact has to be made with a lot of pictures." Ros, of necessity, chose the second way, and was realist enough to know that not all the pictures would be good...
...Craft. At Chicago's National Boat Show, Kermath Mfg. Co. showed off a new engine to propel small pleasure craft (16 tp 21 ft.) by a high-pressure jet of water instead or a propeller. Kermath's 60-h.p. Hydrojet shoots out the water from a nozzle beneath the stern, steers the boat by changing the direction of the jet. Chief advantage: the jet boat has no propeller to break in shallow water. Price $990 f.o.b. Detroit...
...opinion there is an omission in Father Connell's suggested classes into which those outer-space dwellers who propel the flying saucers might fall. Why couldn't they be the departed Jews and Protestants, in as much as, according to the teaching in some parochial schools, only Roman Catholics go to heaven? Or does he include Jews and Protestants in Class II, with the luckless infants doomed not to see the literal face...
...push the rotor around. Another is a central turbojet engine blowing hot gases through hollow rotor blades. The gas will escape as jets from one side of each blade tip, making the rotor spin. When the aircraft has gained enough altitude, the central engine will be used to propel it forward, supported partly by the windmilling rotor, partly by small wings...
...human frame stand the painful acceleration (at least three times the pull of gravity for the first 9½ minutes) needed to propel a rocket into a permanent orbit around the earth? Perhaps, say the scientists-if the cabin is properly air-conditioned, if the passengers' heads are clamped into position to prevent a neck-snapping jolt during takeoff, if some kind of magnetic suits are provided to hold them to the floor when the familiar pull of gravity fades away. Could the weightless pilot, whipping through space at seven miles a second, depend on his sense of vision...