Word: round
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time of the knockout, 2 min. 9 sec. of the first round, was a near record for Louis. In 1938 it took Joe just 2 min. 4 sec. to polish off Max Schmeling, who had made the mistake of knocking out Louis in their previous meeting...
...Navy has described the torture chamber which it will build at Johnsville, Pa. to test the effect of the hops, drops and altitude changes of high-speed airplanes upon the human body. The Navy's gadget is a gigantic merry-go-round with a cab twelve feet in diameter at the end of a 50-foot horizontal arm. When the arm is revolving 48 times a minute, the cab will circle at 173 m.p.h. At this speed everything inside it will be subjected to "a centrifugal force of 40 "Gs," much more than the most rugged man can stand...
...human body is accustomed. When an airplane makes a turn, it subjects its occupants to a centrifugal or "quasi-gravitational" force measured in additional Gs. During a "five G turn," the pilot's body weighs five times as much as normal. The Navy's gruesome merry-go-round will determine how much a human body can weigh and still function. Without a protective "G suit" (TIME, Sept. 23), the average man blacks out at about 5^ Gs. His pulled-down facial tissues make him look 20 years older...
...turn up for venereal treatment can be persuaded, with tactful handling, to name their contacts. The investigators can sometimes trace the spirochetes back through a complex transmission line (see cut). More effective than the shotgun technique of mass blood tests, contact tracing has helped venereal fighters to identify and round up for treatment thousands of active disease spreaders...
After advertising their respective orhonored tales to a packed auditorium ganizations and plying the round of time-on the third floor of PBH, the orators had to descend to the first-floor parlor to address another group equally crowded...