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...shaved his head, shaved it absolutely bald. His short, street-stubby from was now even stubbier, looking like one of those skin-heads out on the night for some good "Pakibashing...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: Of Wolves and Men | 8/17/1979 | See Source »

...Stubbier than ever...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A FUGUE REMEMBERING THE PUEBLO | 8/15/1969 | See Source »

...wings are good "future practice" in aerodynamics. The NACA (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics) proved years ago by wind-tunnel tests that the long, graceful wings of bombers are much less efficient above Mach 1 than clumsy-looking "stub" wings. As planes get faster, their wings will probably grow stubbier still until they diminish into something looking like an arrowhead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fastest of Them All? | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

...N.E.I. Army since October, when General Berenschot was killed in an airplane crash. His planes ranged far out to sea, attacked and sank Japanese ships. They worked closely with the N.E.I. Navy, which was at sea. The Navy commander, Vice Admiral C. E. L. Helfrich, a shorter, stubbier, seagoing edition of Ter Poorten, had sent the fleet out days before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: Het is Zoover | 1/26/1942 | See Source »

...Detroit. The world's first all-metal dirigible, built stubbier than a Zeppelin, was successfully tried out for the first time. Built experimentally for the Navy by Aircraft Development Co. (subsidiary of Detroit Aircraft Corp.) after designs of Ralph Hazlett Upson, onetime Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. sausage balloon and blimp designer, the all-metal dirigible has a skin of aleled (duralumin core with surface coating of pure aluminum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Tokyo to Los Angeles | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

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