Word: weight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dayton for more tests. For two weeks they were jolted, spun, vibrated, crushed, chilled and roasted in physical and psychological tests simulating the stresses of space flight. Each man was set to hiking on a treadmill that was elevated one degree per minute, and to pedaling increasing amounts of weight on a bikelike device. Each was whirled for 3½ minutes in a centrifuge speeding at various angles that simulated pressures up to twelve times the pull of gravity, placed for one hour in a pressure chamber at a simulated altitude of 65,000 ft., then in a heat chamber...
While a strong Freshman heavy-weight crew remains inactive until April 25, the freshman lightweights will enter the lists this afternoon against Cornell and M.I.T. in their first race of the season...
After an excellent winter season in which he set an official national freshman record of 55 ft., 1 1/2 in in the 35-lb. weight, Bailey will turn his attentions to the hammer throw, where he again has record-breaking potential. He is already out-throwing everyone on the varsity with heaves around 170 ft., and he should improve with experience...
Stan Greenspan in the discus, Tom Corbin in the hammer, javelin, and shot, and John Jeppson in the discus and shot will support Bailey in the weight events. Dean Alpine, a potential six-foot jumper, should add points in the high jump. The broad jump, behind Beckwith, and the pole vault are weak...
...divide only when Rhodinus needs to grow a new coat. This process occurs after the bug is newly gorged with blood, and then all the cells under its body wall divide simultaneously. Furthermore, it can live for a year on one meal, after drinking up to twelve times its weight. Until its next feeding, its cells are in a nondividing state...