Word: rocketeer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Arthur H. Compton proved the pleasantest subject. He posed in his room and talked to the camera man almost an hour on the intensity of cosmic rays, and rocket ships. He held that in time we may be making journeys to the moon and the planets. He said that science was delayed by lack of funds and that we won't have another stratosphere flight for some time as it cost about $160,000 for a balloon. The photographer was referred to Jean Piccard who would only say that it costs "an enermous amount...
...city vice investigations commonly rocket up in a splatter of front-page headlines, sputter out on back pages with a few inconsequential arrests and vague generalities which leave decent citizens no better informed about local conditions than they were before. Last week in Manhattan a racket investigation launched by Governor Lehman provided New Yorkers with an astonishingly detailed exposition of the personnel and workings of organized prostitution...
Ralegh was the greatest failure of the Elizabethan age, and outside his native Devon the most hated man in England. His rocket-like career came down like a dead stick, but there was a star-burst before the end. Ralegh was a gentleman but not a noble, and both the Tudor and the older nobility frowned on him as an upstart. After a fitful attendance at Oxford some fighting in the Low Countries and in Ireland (where he made historians shudder by his part in the massacre at Smerwick), Ralegh went to Elizabeth's court and began his rapid...
...rocket crescendo of Harvard's 1936 hockey fortunes burns out and fades in the night, fans turn their attentions towards the 1937 season and speculate whether it, too, will see a bold niches burned into the tablet of hockey records, or whether the team will fizzle through the season a complete dud. Although a prediction as to the season's outcome is as worthless as a weather prediction for Boston based on a recent snow flurry in Japan, a statement of paper potentialities is not wholly beside the point. And Harvard's potentialities are good...
Most gratifying progress made so far has been in the matter of fuel. Since a rocket is like an upward moving gun firing continuously at the ground, it was natural for the first experimenters to use gunpowder. But powder burned unevenly and it was extremely dangerous. The new technique is to use liquid oxygen and a liquid fuel such as gasoline or alcohol, which do not mix until the rocket is ready to go off. Such a mixture develops energies ten times greater than...