Word: pushes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next day, after motoring up to Cambridge, Mass., where he dropped sons John and Adlai Jr. off at Harvard, Stevenson turned back to New York for a private confab with influential Democrats. This week, looking forward to the big push in Minnesota, he heads out to Minneapolis to shake as many hands as possible before the March 20 primary...
...remember. Today's pilot is a professional. Like other professionals, he has a set of ethics. What are they? To press on to a target. He's not like a rifleman going over the top. where, if the social stimulus of the other men doesn't push him over, someone will carry him over. No, our pilots go into targets alone. It's a matter of ethics whether they press through the attack. I don't think many would poop out in what you journalists call the moment of truth...
Many airplanes, especially heavy-laden bombers, are launched by booster (jato) rockets whose powerful push gets them into the air without too long a take-off run. The rockets are expensive, whether they use liquid or solid fuel, so the West German Ministry of Transport asked jet-propulsion experts to evaluate hot-water rockets, a prewar German idea that never got a thorough tryout. Recently, Physicist Werner Michely told a meeting at Freu-denstadt that hot-water booster rockets look promising...
...water cannot boil because it is confined, but its pressure rises to 50 atmospheres (735 Ibs. per sq. in.). When the valve is opened, part of the water turns into steam, and a jet of steam and water spurts out at 1,140 m.p.h. The reaction, Michely claims, can push an airplane forward just as efficiently as a fuel-burning rocket, and much more cheaply. When electricity is used for heating, the same amount of thrust costs less than one-seventieth as much as with a solid-fuel rocket. Other heat sources would be even cheaper...
Both visiting squads bring greater strength to Cambridge than have any previous visitors this season, and for this reason will force Crimson swimmers to peak performances. Princeton can push the Crimson varsity to records in any or all of eight events...