Word: weighting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tsien's rocket liner would be 78.9 ft. long and 8.86 ft. in diameter, with a loaded weight of 96,500 Ibs. It would have small wings and a ramjet as well as a rocket motor. Its maximum speed, 9,140 m.p.h., would carry the ship 1,200 miles on an elliptical course outside the atmosphere. As it curved down toward the earth, it would meet the air again and turn into a non-powered glider. Coasting through the air for another 1,800 miles, it would land at 150 m.p.h.-not much more than the landing speed...
...reach "escape velocity," the space ship's fuel must be used as economically as possible, and the efficiency of a rocket motor depends on the speed of the exhaust gases. Lewis calculated that a space ship carrying half its total weight in fuel would have to shoot out its exhaust gases at 9.95 miles a second...
...telephones, striking clocks, blinking lights, swinging doors, even false statements in the program. Yet The Closing Door is much more seriously written than the usual thriller and is full of clinical detail and therapeutic advice, some of it Freud and some of it scrambled. If this adds to the weight of the play, it only proves, in terms of good melodrama, a dead weight. Toward the end, however, as the adolescent events that poisoned Vail's life emerge simultaneously with the frightful method he took to find release, The Closing Door achieves an extremely gruesome ten minutes...
...heavyweight bouts, the two teams appear to be fairly well-matched. Captain Bob Claflin is making his debut as a heavy, having wrestled at 175 last year, and should be able to take care of Bading. The outcome of the match may well depend on how the lower weight battles come...
...Twenty weight throwers, including former world record holder Henry Dreyer of New York A.C. will compete at 12 noon Saturday. Men from Tufts, BU, MIT, BC, and Harvard will be in the competition. Both Felton and Dreyer bettered the world mark on several occasions in practice and unofficial meets last year...