Word: sturdier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hours and today, at 57, is still flying, part of the time in jets). He also knew engineering. He was a natural choice to head the Navy's Norfolk test station in 1930. At Norfolk he developed the hydraulic arresting gear for carrier landings; he helped devise sturdier seaplane hulls, special tires to absorb landing impact, landing lights and releasing hooks...
...Pittoresques (Lamoureux Orchestra conducted by Jean Fournet; Epic). An ingratiating suite by one of the French nationalist revolution aries of the 1870s (others: Lalo, Saint-Saëns) that swings its waltz and polonaise movements as only Massenet could. Played as if it were made of sturdier stuff...
Hamilton's locust parthenogeneticists proved themselves, in addition, sturdier and longer-lived than locusts born as the result of male interference, but they produce about one-third as many offspring. This explains the long periods when the desert locusts lead scattered and peaceable lives...
Unfortunately, sturdier data must supplant this episode from Moe's fanciful History of Harvard. Veritas was one of several religious mottoes suggested in the early years of the College. At that time a spiritual team, Veritas was translated as "divine truth," the meaning Dante had given...
...level, one of the climbers suffered a mild heart attack. There was no choice but to set up a base camp-though for an ascent of 17,000-ft. Batian Peak, the highest of the mountain's peaks, this was much too low. Nonetheless, Benuzzi and the sturdier of his two companions, taking a route that professional mountaineers had declared impassable, set out for Batian...