Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fencing foils but regulation French épées. As cameras whirred and co-eds squealed, the two boys went into earnest action, lunging, slashing, parrying, feinting, with danger flashing at the needle-points of their weapons. After many lively passages, Student Cousineau made a long, savage thrust and from Student Bauer's arm spurted a red jet of real blood. "Touche!" cried the referee and the duel was over...
...With airplane size now reaching vast proportions, most airports are becoming obsolete. The NACA has been experimenting with catapults to solve this problem, found that the forthcoming Douglas DC-4 will need a thrust of 15,000 Ib. to take off in 1,150 ft. This requires an engine of 3,250 h.p., which is too expensive. Probable solution will be a large flywheel which can store up this much energy. The catapult would presumably rise from an emplacement in the centre of the field. Passengers might need headrests, but would not be internally distressed by the sudden start...
...landed gentry) caste in Germany which has opposed Hitler's determination to go through with the Spanish adventure, was all for an early withdrawal. Mussolini disagreed, suggested that Italy and Germany should make no change until they see the outcome of White Generalissimo Franco's next big thrust, which Mussolini was confident would take place on the Madrid front toward the end of May. Guest von Neurath politely yielded to his host and agreed that "everything permitted by the non-intervention agreement" must be done to insure that German and Italian "volunteers" already in Spain have enough food...
...port of a long shakedown cruise to Suva, Sydney, Rabaul, Nouméa, etc. Coming on deck that morning I heard the engine roar of one of the biplanes she carried, and as I stepped over the hatch coaming I saw the plane just beginning to lift from the thrust of the catapult. Almost immediately, from an elevation of, perhaps, two hundred feet, she fell into the bay. Thus ended man's first brief flight in Samoa...
...ninth month slid into the past, the Leftists hastily mobilized peasants and city workers to push the fierce drive few miles to the northwest of Teruel, General Franco's powerful garrison in eastern Spain, 150 miles from Madrid. Again and again the Leftists, backed by war planes, thrust forward in an effort to weaken General Franco's hold in that critical sector lest he succeed in wrecking their communications between Valencia and Barcelona...