Word: seat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Moral backing for any protest against the "No girls in the cheering section" dictum disappears with the application forms themselves, for every student when he signed one agreed to occupy personally the seat he bought. By the fourth game of the season everyone must have realized that the rule was there, enforced or not, and observation seems to show that only a small minority of the student body attempted to beat the game by swapping single tickets...
...Hilton (who once told tabloid reporters that unidentified villains had kept her in "continuous slumber" for six months with mysterious drugs) now reported to police that a tall stranger in a grey suit, fedora, pigskin gloves and dark glasses had tied her and her maid to a love seat and made off with her jewels. He first got Zsazsa out of bed in her black chiffon negligee, she said, and took the diamond ring, diamond bracelet and diamond necklace she had been sleeping in. Then he got the stuff off the night table, and the box full of diamond odds...
...Suppose you were the pilot of a single-seat jet fighter . . . scooting across the sky at 40,000 ft. or higher at more than 600 m.p.h., and suppose something went wrong. . . . How would you 'get out?' " The problem is posed by Hanson W. Baldwin in this week's New York Times magazine...
...with a Bang. Human bodies can stand this alarming torment. But now comes the problem of getting out of the cockpit. "Climb out and jump?" Baldwin asks. "Try it in a plane making 600 miles an hour. . . . You can't move; the wind plasters you into your seat. ... So what...
Wright Field has been experimenting with a pilot's seat that is shot out of the cockpit, pilot and all, by a 37-mm. shell. The difficulty is getting the seat out fast enough to clear the plane, but not so fast that the sudden acceleration will injure the human spine or break the hip bones. The prospects for this look fairly good. Wright Field workers have proved by experiments on themselves, says Baldwin, "that a man can take even the forces of 20 'Gs' [20 times the force of gravity] on his hip bones...