Word: wave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Power of the salt sea's wave...
Only break of the game came in the waning moments of the third quarter when a Mastodon center sailed goalward unmolested until a wave of green players fell on the ball on the Eliot 20. While loyel Leverett rooters whopped it up on the sidelines, the Elephant forward wall tightened, and in three plays the Bunny offensive succeeded in advancing the ball to the Eliot...
...firm emphasis was put on passing in yesterday's scrimmage pointing toward the Exeter game tomorrow. More back field juggling was necessary this week to compensate for the wave of injuries that has levelled the Yardling fullbacks...
...propelled P-80, for instance, was designed as a fighter. But when its guns were first fired at 600 m.p.h., their bullets and gas blasts interrupted the smooth flow of air over the polished skin. The dread sound wave snapped its teeth, and the P-80 disintegrated...
...from its P-80s. The tiniest chip or crack might endanger the plane by roughening the air flow. In a test flight, according to one group of experts, a gnat squashed against the leading edge of a P-80's wing. It stuck, and behind it a sound wave hammered perilous dimples in the skin...