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Word: sec (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sports editor Clark Porteous, from the staff of the Memphis Press Scimitar, holds track records at Southwestern University (class of '34) in the 2 mile (9.28) mile (4.18) half mile (1.55 and quarter (50 sec.) He specializes now in long distance commuting from Hingham; which is South...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The "Publisher" Cornered | 10/31/1946 | See Source »

...Artist John Trumbull made it a horse of another color (sec...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW JERSEY: Field of Liberty | 10/28/1946 | See Source »

...start at 8 miles per second in the direction opposite to the motion of the earth (see diagram) * Since the earth moves at 18½ miles per second, the space ship's net forward motion would be 10½ miles per second (18½; minus 8 miles per sec.). This speed is too slow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Gliding, Gliding | 10/21/1946 | See Source »

...toward Mars. To reach Mars, the space ship would take off in the same direction as the earth's motion. Its increased speed (8 plus 18½ equals 26½ miles per sec.) would make it spiral outward toward the rendezvous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Gliding, Gliding | 10/21/1946 | See Source »

...stage. Tucker President Preston Tucker has little more than a ten-year lease (beginning next March) on a plant in Chicago, a staff of 125, a pile of blueprints. All he now needs: 1) investors to buy a $20,000,000 stock issue still to be registered with the SEC, 2) production equipment, 3) materials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Sleek and Low Down | 10/14/1946 | See Source »

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