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...vertical climb. Slowly its speed dropped off until, just before it stalled, the pilot cut the power in his port engine. Like a great, improbable pinwheel, the plane revolved through a tight circle (see diagram). Three-quarters of the way around, the pilot cut the power in his starboard engine. Momentum kept the Meteor revolving until it completed a turn and a half. For a brief instant it seemed to hang there, nose down, immobile in the sky. Then it fell away in a normal tailspin which the pilot could correct after only half a turn...
...patient's hormone balance. Then, instead of the treatment making the patient normal, he will be forced to adjust himself to the treatment. Says Dr. Means: "The situation may be likened to that in which one tries to bring to even keel a boat with a list to starboard by putting a load to port. Perhaps the boat is righted, but ... if the load imposed is too heavy, the boat may sink! I believe that is what will happen with . . . ACTH and cortisone...
...horns came the command: "White flag. Catapult planes." A lighted wand in the catapult officer's hand described a series of red circles in the darkness (the signal to the pilot to turn up his engine), then swooped down. With the roar of two colliding freight trains, the starboard catapult hurled its plane forward. It thundered off the bow and roared upward into the night, trailed by a blue glow from its exhaust stacks...
...Gifford's duty to telegraph to the port side the same rhythm which stroke McCagg sets for the entire shell on the starboard side. This he has done very well, partly because, after rowing behind McCagg all last year, he now apes him so excellently that he even imitates his mistakes...
...years in the opinion of Bolles. Ted Anderson, last season's five, and Jim Slocum, six on his freshman boat, are possible successors to Strong. For Anderson, working at the sixth position has meant switching from rowing on the port side as he did last year to the starboard...