Word: radially
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While American engine builders have plugged away for years on the development of the air-cooled radial engine, now close to perfection, German designers have worked at the liquid-cooled, in-line power plant. Result for the U. S.: the radial engine, with cylinders ranged like the spokes of a wheel around a short crankshaft, has grown to such size that its drag on the high-speed airplane is now of alarming proportions. (Head resistance increases as the square of the speed, e.g., if speed is tripled, drag becomes nine times as great.) Results for German designers: the in-line...
...Shapley was on the committees on stellar parallaxes, stellar photometry, variable stars, nebulae and globular clusters, and stellar statistics. Dr. Bok was on the committees on stellar statistics and on stellar radial velocities. Dr. Menzel was on the committees on solar radiation, solar eclipses, and spectral photometry...
...powered with four air-cooled 16-cyl. Napier-Half ord 340-h.p. engines, carries a total payload of 1,000 lb. (but no passengers) 3,500 mi. at 160 m.p.h. Its mother beneath, Maia, weighs 40,000 lb. loaded, has four big 9-cyl., 960-h.p. Bristol "Pegasus" radial engines, a wing span of 114 ft., speed of 160 m.p.h. and a range of 730 mi. Though no passengers are intended to ride in mother plane Maia it is equipped as an Empire flying boat, has seats for 16. Fastened together the two planes, all eight engines...
...meaningless. The two cars are not approaching, nor in any way spatially related, for they are not in the same time-setting. . . . [Similarly] the stars and nebulae are all traveling at dizzy speeds along unknown and unpredictable paths . . . each in a different direction, whereof we can merely deduce the radial component at some long past instant. . . . The popular statements as to the distances of stars and nebulae, the size of the galaxy, and especially the 'expansion of the universe'. . . are foolish...
...awards are to: Bartholomeus J. Bok to determine the radial velocities of faint stars; Samuel H. Cross to prepare for publication a translation of the Laurentian Chronicle, a history of the Principality of Kiev, and a volume of memorial essays on A. S. Pushkin...