Word: weighting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Except for its decisions on school desegregation, the U.S. Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren has come under no heavier fire than for its rulings in the prickly area of internal security. Time and again, in apparently sweeping opinions, the court threw its weight on the side of individuals involved in security cases-to the point where many a sober-minded observer feared that the public interest was being jeopardized. But last week, in a pair of 5-4 decisions, the Supreme Court gave clearer focus to two of the most controversial of its earlier security-case rulings, brought...
...next Hovercraft to be built, said Chief Designer Richard Stanton-Jones, will weigh 40 tons and carry 80 passengers at 100 m.p.h. Large Hovercraft should need only one-quarter the horsepower required by airplanes of comparable weight, and be able to carry twice the payload. They can start their voyages on land, require only a reasonably level shore...
Bill Woodhouse, 22, hardly looks like a sprinter. Heavily muscled, short-legged, and packing 150 Ibs. on a 5-ft. 8-in. frame, he is often mistaken for a weight thrower by track fans. But this year he is making Abilene Christian forget about Morrow. Son of a Mason City, Iowa, railroad switchman, Woodhouse was a promising sprinter in high school, was given a scholarship sight unseen from Abilene Christian. When he arrived, Coach Oliver Jackson got a shock. "When he got off that train." Jackson recalls. "I said to myself that if he ever ran as fast...
Conrad took off from Casablanca last week with a whopping 5,000-lb. overall weight (the plane weighs 1,504 Ibs. empty). As his 500-gallon gas supply drained away, he throttled his engine back from 125 m.p.h. to 100 m.p.h., flew most of the way "right on the deck" in good weather at less than 500 ft. Conrad's only crisis came as he neared the coast of Texas, when he decided to drink some tea. "The Arabs put mint in it, and it had become rancid," he explained. "Boy, was I sick!" "Everybody likes to break...
...system is based on a type of seismograph in which a heavy weight is suspended so that it holds still while the earth waves move past it. The slight motion between the weight and electrical elements close to it creates a fluctuating electrical current. Before the current reaches the recording apparatus Pomeroy and Sutton pass it through a special galvanometer-a coil that makes a small weight move against the resistance of a delicate spring. The waves in which they are interested are long and of low frequency (40 to 50 sec.). They found that by choosing a galvanometer with...