Word: smoothness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before the flight, biologists removed the inner ear sensory system of one of the mice, left the other normal, and put each in a "compartment in a rotating smooth-walled drum with an irregularity that afforded a possible foothold for each." Cameras recorded the brief critical no-gravity point of the rocket flight: the desensitized mouse clung to his perch, "whereas the normal animal clawed at the air, suggesting disorientation." A subsequent experiment with monkeys "clearly established the fact that the weightless state itself produces no disturbance of circulation in terms of heart rate or arterial and venous blood pressures...
Lowell's tennis squad, which tied Kirkland's 5-1 season record but beat the Deacons Friday in the final House match of the season, topped Yale's Davenport 4 to 3 in smooth style in the only House-College match played in Cambridge over the weekend...
...same smooth-stroking University of Pennsylvania crew that put an end to Navy's three-year winning streak (TIME, May 16) proved that its Adams Cup victory was no fluke. On the sluggish tidewater of the Potomac, at Washington, the Quakers took the Eastern heavyweight sprint championship by finishing the 2,000-meter race i^ lengths ahead of Cornell. In last place, behind Penn, Cornell, Columbia, Yale and Princeton...
...useful modification of rather than an illusory shortcut to education, the Advanced Standing program will try to smooth the transition between high school and college for those gifted students who are retarded by formal requirements...
...Leverett eight, stroked by junior Gerry Schade, defeated Dunster, defending champion Eliot--ten times winner of the House crown--Kirkland, and Lowell by open water over the smooth Charles Rive. Winning time for the mile race...