Word: thinness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While capering with his friends during a factory rest period last spring, a 15-year-old London boy clambered to an overhead beam. Just as he dropped to the ground one of the workers playfully raised in his direction a thin steel rod, five feet long, three-eighths of an inch in diameter. The rod pierced the lower part of his back, slid up through his body, stopped at the left side of the chest wall. The boy was transfixed like a chicken on a spit, suffered neither shock nor collapse. One of the workers calmly grasped the rod, pulled...
...Gravity haven't been repealed," cited a few warning examples of the treachery of March winds and told what to do about them, there was a flurry of grateful new subscribers. There was another marked customer response to the June number, which explained the dampening effect of hot, thin summer air on engine power, propeller thrust and wing lift; the consequent higher stalling speed; the atmospheric didos to be expected; the effect of heat on pilot reactions. But Air Facts' main theme is the folly of "slow-low" flying: "When the time comes . . . to nose down to secure...
...also, under his real name of Rev. Irwin St. John Tucker, an Episcopal minister, rector for eleven years of Chicago's St. Stephen's, nicknamed "The Little Church at the End of the Road." Last week, upon the publication of Friar Tuck's latest thin volume of verse, Bishop George Craig Stewart named Rector Tucker the official poet laureate of the Chicago diocese...
...difficulty of substratosphere flying is that in the thin upper air a propeller blade has to take bigger or more frequent bites of air to maintain the ship's speed and altitude. By increasing the pitch of propeller blades bigger bites are possible, but wind-tunnel experiments have indicated that any propeller's effectiveness reaches a limit when the speed of its blade tips surpasses the speed of sound (at sea level, 780 m.p.h.; at 20,000 ft., 500 m.p.h.). When propeller tips reach the speed of sound, they find themselves in a sort of dead heat with...
...Fifth International Congress of Applied Mechanics, at Cambridge. Mass. New facts had been obtained, said Dr. Rossby, from weather sounding balloons and airplane explorations of the upper atmosphere. These had been woven together into an original theory about the general circulation of the atmosphere, an elaborate theory still thin in spots, but one that raises scientific hopes for more accurate weather prediction...