Word: whitney
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four burly Pratt & Whitney J57 jet engines blast out more than 40,000 Ibs. of thrust, twice the power of the Comet's four engines, enough to push the 707 through the sky at 550-m.p.h. cruising speed, about 60 m.p.h. faster than the Comet I, about 50% faster than the fastest prop-driven airliners. The 707 is designed to fly the Atlantic in less than seven hours, give the sun a race from east to west. It will be able to leave New York at noon, arrive in Los Angeles...
...John Hay Whitney LL.D...
Aside from these few discomforts the '29ers landed on a college well trained to handle them. Dean Whitney '17 had just enlisted a group of recently-graduated proctors and had picked Elliott Perkins '23 as his first assistant dean. The CRIMSON added to their advice with its first "Confidential Guide to Freshman Courses," which covered about 40 courses normally open to the newcomers. The freshmen in financial trouble turned to Walter Daly '14 who announced average expenses would run between $900 and $1,200. All told, Harvard in the fall of 1925 greeted its new babes with open arms...
...Frost wanted a vertical take-off-which is quite a trick. Even such a powerful jet engine as Pratt & Whitney's J-57, with about 10,000 Ibs. of thrust, can barely lift its own weight vertically. After countless wind-tunnel tests, Frost finally found what he thinks is a solution in an aerodynamic principle known as "the Coanda effect...
...Native Dancer, there are those who half hope that they will not succeed, so great is their reverence for the horse. On the day of his most recent race, the Big Grey walked majestically into the paddock at the head of a parade of nine entries. Wealthy Horseman Jock Whitney, owner of the No. 2 choice in the betting, gazed admiringly not at his own Straight Face but at the Dancer. "f any one beats him. I hope it's my horse," mused Whitney. "It's strange, but I hope the Dancer wins...