Word: thin
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...found the answer in air-film technology. Already used by Boeing to move heavy airframes about and by San Francisco's Bay Area Rapid Transit system to swing subway cars around at terminals, this new technology allows large, bulky objects to be maneuvered on so-called air bearings-thin (.031 in.), porous plastic disks. When air is forced through the disks from above at high pressure, it builds up underneath them in a thin film that acts as a bearing. In the Rolair-designed system at the Aloha Stadium, 416 such air bearings are positioned under the four movable...
Asked to give their mental image of the typical researcher, nonscientists tended to see him as a thin, balding, white-coated, middle-aged man in spectacles. But one reader added a telling apology: "Actually, I know a lot of scientists and they aren't a bit like this." As a matter of fact, the poll showed that a great many people who have strong opinions about "the scientific community" today are not really familiar with it. Of the 20 scientists most frequently mentioned by name in responses to the survey, only seven are living. Among them: Astronomer Fred Hoyle...
Korda is so obsessed by style as the key to power that his book reads like The Prince by Matchabelli. He believes that shoes should be the five-eyelet type from Peal & Co., Ltd. and must always be highly shined. Expensive, thin briefcases are out. A man making less than $50,000 should carry only an old, battered two-handle briefcase. A thin leather portfolio is proper between $50,000 and $100,000. A man who makes more than that should not carry a briefcase...
Baseball lacks action today because team-shuffling shylocks like Finley have been instrumental in league expansion, which has spread player talent so thin that rule changes and orange balls are needed to keep fan interest...
WWII represents a return to the subject that James Jones has never really left. For the past several years he has been working on Whistle, a long novel that will cap the war trilogy of From Here to Eternity (1951) and The Thin Red Line...