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...Penn attack, choked for most of the game, managed one spurt in the third period when Richard Hannum passed 38 yards to end James Carpenter at the Harvard 10. But Hannum could take his team no farther, and Frank Capobianco's 22-yard field goal try was wide...
...spurt of uncommon activity, the Congress last week also...
...NASA's 707, though, the steep-angled flaps have help. Just ahead of their leading edges, where they join the wing, streams of high-pressure air from the compressors of the jet engines spurt out of nozzles and bathe the flaps' upper surfaces, smoothing the air flow and creating extra lift. To supply enough air at 100 lbs. per sq. in., the engines must run at high speed, developing too much thrust for a plane on its landing approach. But the research ship picks up no extra speed; its extra thrust is contained by big clamshell deflectors that...
Outplayed for a period and a half, the varsity lacrosse team suddenly shook its lethargy Saturday and scored six goals before Cornell could again penetrate its defense. That devastating spurt carried the Crimson to a 13-9 victory--its fifth straight and first in Ivy League competition...
...Deep. It was never simple for Pollock. Friends saw him, a cigarette smoldering on his lip, emerge from his studio limp as a wet dishrag. In 1953 Pollock took up brushes again, using his drip technique less and less frequently, to produce his last spurt of genius. In Portrait and a Dream, he showed the dichotomy between the monochrome meandering of his somnolent mind and the colorful mask of his own waking self. In Easter and the Totem, he paired a budding lily with a brown bullet totem that juts into the canvas from the left. He painted The Deep...