Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Later, sitting under the stilled rotor on Bridgeport's field, he explained his controls. For forward flight, he pushes the ship's nose down, lets gravity pull it toward the ground while the rotor pulls it into the air. The component of the forces of lift and gravity is the line of flight-which can be backward, forward or side-wise-much as a man can move forward by inclining his body and just barely prevent himself from falling by putting his feet in front of him in time...
...word 'heave,' he jumps off the lever and so releases the rope. The men drop into position [see lower cut]. Having fallen on the right side, each man instantly throws his left foot over the rope to the cleat and in that position he continues to pull for five minutes...
...pull with all one's strength for five minutes against what was practically a dead weight without the slightest chance to relax a muscle was a severe test of endurance. After a contest, some men could not at once sit up, some collapsed. I remember one who fell in a dead faint. . . . Pulling from cleats in a prone position put such strain on the heart that many athletes were permanently injured and so the game was outlawed in the early...
Smith resumed training last week, but did not have time to get in shape for the Heptagonal. Coach Mikkola kept him out for the added reason that he did not wish him to risk a strain. The last pull would have surely have eliminated him from the all-important Yale meet this week...
Rose got to the window in time to see her husband pull out his service revolver, shoot himself in the head...