Word: thick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ignored by the idlers, two sedans turned into the Prado and parked close to the Paseo de Marti branch of the Royal Bank of Canada. The porter was just opening the thick mahogany doors of the one-story limestone building...
Brute Plane. The only airplane, so far as is known, to fly faster than sound is the rocket-propelled X-I (TIME, Jan. 5). But the X-I is not a real operational airplane. It is very small and heavy, made largely of metal plates nearly half an inch thick. It carres no useful load except the pilot, some instruments and fuel for two minutes of flight at full power. It smashed through the transonic speed band by sheer brute force, not aerodynamic virtuosity...
They were nothing but punks-callow, sullen, foul-mouthed youths. Tuberculous, bespectacled Johnny West was 22; he had a thin, bony body, a big nose, a girl's mouth, and a mind as weak and erratic as a bat's. Stocky, thick-lipped Robert Daniels was 24; there was a look of dull, animal vigor about him and he loved flashy clothes. But he had a psychopathic impulsiveness, an inability to consider consequences...
...thick morning, the control tower at Tempelhof was hushed as operators tried for contact with a C-54, lost for an hour over the city. Finally the plane landed. "Here they got the fifth largest city in the world," muttered a relieved tower operator, "and they miss...
...perhaps two-thousandths the mass of an electron, and have no electric charge by which they can be influenced electrically. They pass right through matter as if it weren't there. Physicists have calculated, says Dr. Gamow, that it would take a lead shield 200 million million miles thick to stop speeding neutrinos...