Word: stubbed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some speeds, thinks the NACA, the most efficient airplane may be shaped like an arrowhead. For others, it may have short, broad "stub" wings. They do not stop at "moderate" speeds such as Mach 1.5, but think boldly about speeds two or three times as fast. Obstacles do not discourage them. At Mach 4, they calculate, air friction will heat the leading edge (perhaps the whole body) of an airplane to about 1,200° F. This is red hot, and above the softening point of ordinary structural metals. "But," say the NACA men, "wings can be cooled artificially...
...printing plant, Antoinette (Claire Maffei) in a five &,ten. They live in a two-room walkup. He yearns to own a motorcycle, she to live in a new apartment. One day they hold a winning lottery ticket that underwrites their dreams. But before he can collect, Antoine loses the stub...
...have a feeling that a few of your readers (perhaps 95%) might not be able to define some of the words I have listed. In fact, some of the editors of TIME might stub a toe now & then...
...labored into the skies over California's Muroc Army Air Base. To its duralumin bosom it clutched a precious burden: the Bell Aircraft Corp.'s rocket-propelled XS-1, a plane designed to fly more than 1,000 miles an hour. At 27,000 feet, the stub-winged, orange-colored XS-1 was released to begin its first power flight. It dropped heavily-300, 600, 800 feet. Then the rocket engine in its tail belched flame and it spurted ahead...
Someone once compared Critic John Forster to a pencil stub-"short, thick, and full of lead." In writing his classic Life of Charles Dickens, Forster presented the public with only the best of the man who was his best friend. Not until 1938, when the Nonesuch Press published over 8,000 intimate items of Dickens' correspondence, did the public learn what it had already guessed-that David Copperfield and The Pickwick Papers had been written by a very human being, not by a bearded Apollo in a frockcoat...